ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Ten-string guitar

Okay kiddo, have you ever seen a guitar before? It's a string instrument that you strum with your fingers to make beautiful music. Well, sometimes people want to make even more beautiful music with extra strings on their guitar. That's where a ten-string guitar comes in.

Instead of the regular six strings that most guitars have, a ten-string guitar has, you guessed it, ten strings! The extra strings are added to give the guitar player more notes to play with and more options to create different sounds.

Now, you might be wondering how these extra strings fit on the guitar. They are usually placed on the top of the existing six strings, so they don't get in the way of strumming or fingerpicking. Sometimes they are tuned to the same notes as the existing strings, while other times they are tuned to different notes to create new sounds.

Playing a ten-string guitar can be a bit tricky, though. It takes a lot of practice and skill to maneuver all those strings and make them sound good together. But for those who can master it, the ten-string guitar can be a beautiful and unique instrument that creates a wide range of sounds.