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So yesterday I’m putting on a set fresh of strings an hour before a gig. Brand new strings, full of bright tone and vibrating with clarity make an acoustic guitar come alive with magic. I’ve changed hundreds of sets in my time. As I was tightening the G string, the peg which secures it in the bridge hole popped out. Normally this is no big deal but this time the peg vanished into thin air. I couldn’t find it anywhere. I strapped on my miner’s head light and bent down to look under the furnature, I moved cushions, repeated my search methodically with a quadrants, down on my hands and knees feeling the carpet, all to no avail. By this time it was getting late so I went upstairs and borrowed a peg from another guitar and quickly finished changing strings. The gig went really well, my guitar sounded fantastic. When I got home I unpacked and put everything away, still wondering where the illusive peg was hiding. As I took my guitar out of the case and was placing it in the corner I heard something move inside. I looked in the sound hole, flipped it upside down, shaking it a few times and the peg magically dropped out. Sometimes, when we have lost something in our lives all we need to do is look inside ourselves to find it...