never mind giving  a pig a pancake what happens when you give a bunch of live bird a set of guitars you get  some pretty wild sounding  music pretty wild  the Peabody  Essex museum in Massachusetts  70 zebra finches were put in a big open room with 14 quitters every time their little claws stepped on a string the played musical notes. of course the song they made was  a little wacky the birds  were  busy  chasing birdseed  or worms or eacb other. but feel free to try to sing along. a guitars 6 string play the not  E A D G B G and E can you remember those note and say  them back see if you can remember  the other again   E A D G B E see  if you can remember  that sequence  if each of a bird's 2 feet lands on a different guitar string  how many of the guitar's 6 strings haven't been touched yet 4 string what the greatest number of string 8  birds  can play at once if they all land on different guitars 16 string if  there are 14 -6 string guitars how many possible guitar stringing are there for birds to land on 84 guitar stringing  if  70 birds divide up  evenly how among the 14 guitars how  many birds have to share each guitar  5 birds per guitar if a bird's  2 feet can land on any 2 string how many different  pairs of notes can a bird play when it lands on on a guitar Assume the 2 feet don't  land on the same string  15  Paris if we name  the strings  ABCDEF the first  foot can  land on a  leaving 5 strings for  the other  foot giving  us AB  AC AE  AF then the  first foot could land on the 2ad string leaving just  4 choices for the  other foot BC BD BE  BF because we  already counted AB if the first foot lands on C we get 3 more pairs and so on until we have 5+4+3+2+1=15 pairs.  from called book bedtime math