Every hobby has its own panoply of bizarre-looking tools, machines, and items that a non-hobbyist can't possibly understand by just picking it up and looking at it. Why should music be any different?
No matter what instrument you play, you probably have a few of these items that non-musicians can't identify. Maybe you have some stories you like to tell about them.
See the mystery item? Click thru to find out what it is. If you already know, maybe you can share something even harder to identify.
The above tool is a guitar string winder. You wouldn't use it to tune a guitar, but you would when changing the strings. Turning the pegs a lot gets tiring. The winder fits over the pegs and you can crank them tight or loose pretty quickly.
This next one, on the left, is a guitar capo. There are a number of different shapes but they all do the same thing: press down on the strings, raising the key. Very useful if you only know certain chords but want to play along with other people in an unfamiliar key. Partial capos also exist, to raise just a few strings.
Okay last one, on the right. No, it's not jewelry. This is a guitar pick you wear on a thumb or finger instead of hold between your fingers.
You don't have to do this with pictures, you can describe some of your gear with words. Does some of your gear weigh more than you do? Is it difficult to move, or have non-musicians misidentified it in some way? Or any other topic on music, because this is a community diary. All topics on musicians, music, and other noise are welcome.
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