How to determine string tone from FFT

Question

I have a spectrum from the Fourier transform. It looks like this:
^{The police just walked by}

Color represents intensity.
X axis - time.
Y axis - frequency - where 0 is on top.

As long as the whistle or police siren leaves only one trace, many other tones seem to contain many harmonic frequencies.

^{An electric guitar connects directly to the microphone (standard setting)}

The very bad thing is that, as you see, there is not much intensity - there are almost 2-3 frequencies that are almost equal. I wrote a peak detection algorithm to highlight the strongest peak:

    function findPeaks(data, look_range, minimal_val) {
      if(look_range==null)
        look_range = 10;
      if(minimal_val == null)
        minimal_val = 20;
      //Array of peaks            
      var peaks = [];
      //Currently the max value (that might or might not end up in peaks array)
      var max_value = 0;
      var max_value_pos = 0;
      //How many values did we check without changing the max value
      var smaller_values = 0;
      //Tmp variable for performance
      var val;
      var lastval=Math.round(data.averageValues(0,4));
      //console.log(lastval);
      for(var i=0, l=data.length; i<l; i++) {
        //Remember the value for performance and readibility
        val = data[i];

        //If last max value is larger then the current one, proceed and remember
        if(max_value>val) {
          //iterate the ammount of values that are smaller than our champion
          smaller_values++;
          //If there has been enough smaller values we take this one for confirmed peak
          if(smaller_values > look_range) {
            //Remember peak
            peaks.push(max_value_pos);
            //Reset other variables
            max_value = 0;
            max_value_pos = 0;
            smaller_values = 0;
          }
        }
        //Only take values when the difference is positive (next value is larger)
        //Also aonly take values that are larger than minimum thresold
        else if(val>lastval && val>minimal_val) {
          //Remeber this as our new champion
          max_value = val;
          max_value_pos = i;
          smaller_values = 0;
          //console.log("Max value: ", max_value);
        }           
        //Remember this value for next iteration
        lastval = val;
      }
      //Sort peaks so that the largest one is first
      peaks.sort(function(a, b) {return -data[a]+data[b];});
      //if(peaks.length>0)
      //  console.log(peaks);
      //Return array
      return peaks;
    }

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