Why do stringed instruments have tuning pegs?

To keep the strings from tangling
We peg them in their places.
or else they’d drag across the ground
like bad behaved shoelaces.

The other ends we twist ’em tight!
around each tuning post
well not too tight- but just enough-
to E A D G B and E at most.


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