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Spring clamp capo A guitar capo with a lever-operated over-centre locking action clamp Demonstrating the peg removal feature on an Adagio guitar capo. A capo (/ ˈ k eɪ p oʊ ˌ k æ-ˌ k ɑː-/ KAY-poh, KAH-; short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto [ˌkapoˈtasto], Italian for "head of fretboard") [a] is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument ...
Guitar Guitar: C 3: Handbells: C 5: Hardanger Fiddle: D 4: Horn Marching horn: B ♭ 3: Horn: F 3: Mellophone: Mellophone: F 3: Oboe: F piccolo oboe: F 4: E ♭ piccolo oboe E ♭ 4: Oboe d'amore: A 3: Cor anglais F 3: Heckelphone and Bass oboe C 3: Oud: G 2: Bolahenk tuning Recorder Garklein recorder: C 6: Sopranino recorder: C 5 /F 5: Soprano ...
For chords, a letter above or below the tablature staff denotes the root note of the chord, chord notation is also usually relative to a capo, so chords played with a capo are transposed. Chords may also be notated with chord diagrams. Examples of guitar tablature notation: The chords E, F, and G as an ASCII tab:
Using the barre technique, the guitarist can fret a familiar open chord shape, and then transpose, or raise, the chord a number of half-steps higher, similar to the use of a capo. For example, when the current chord is an E major and the next is an F ♯ major, the guitarist barres the open E major up two frets (two semitones) from the open ...
A FuniChar D-616 guitar with a Drop D tuning. It has an unusual additional fretboard that extends onto the headstock. Most guitarists obtain a Drop D tuning by detuning the low E string a tone down. This article contains a list of guitar tunings that supplements the article guitar tunings. In particular, this list contains more examples of open ...
A partial capo may appear to have a similar effect to alternate tunings, but there are differences. A common example is a capo which covers the top five strings of a guitar, leaving the bass E string not capoed. When played at the second fret, this appears to create a drop D tuning (where the bass E string is tuned to a D) raised one full tone ...
The Shubb capo was introduced at the 1980 NAMM Show, and became a favorite on the Usenet acoustic guitar newsgroup. [ 13 ] An advantage with using this type of capo is that it does not change the intonation in a way that makes the instrument difficult to tune, as it "mimics the grip of a human hand."
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano). For example, playing a written middle C on a transposing instrument produces a pitch other than middle C; that sounding pitch identifies the interval of ...