The death of musician and pioneer electric-guitar maker Les Paul on Thursday made headlines in a lot of newspapers today. The News & Record of Greensboro, N.C., had an above-flag promo on its front page to the story inside:

There was just one slight problem, as John Robinson, the paper’s editor, pointed out on Twitter:

Cringe-inducing moment: we used a Fender Strat to illustrate Les Paul’s death.

In the paper’s defense, that’s kind of a tough one to catch unless you had someone who knew a Fender Strat from a Les Paul working on your design or copy desk. Heck, I play guitar a little bit, and I would’ve looked right past the promo and not noticed it. To the paper’s credit, they didn’t try to hide the error, since Robinson’s tweet is how I found out about it. And one of the good things about working at a newspaper is that you may have screwed up today, but you get to start with a clean slate tomorrow (and a chance to make all new screwups).