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  2. Capo (musical device) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Capo - Wikipedia

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    Capo (musical device), a device that is attached to the frets of a string instrument to raise the pitch of each string; Capo, a 2011 album by American rapper Jim Jones; El Capo, a 2019 album by Jim Jones "Capo", a 2018 single by American rapper NLE Choppa "Capo", a song by Bizzy Bone and Capo-Confucius, from the album Alpha and Omega

  4. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

  5. Glossary of flamenco terms - Wikipedia

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    a measure or bar; flamencos use the word to mean both (a) the name of the type of twelve-count and (b) the rhythmic skill of a performer contratiempo cross-rhythms; including syncopation and rubato copla verse of cante flamenco, as against the cuple of a (non-flamenco) canto coraje a way of performing that shows impetuosity or daring (lit ...

  6. Colombian tiple - Wikipedia

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    To address this problem either the second course strings may all be tuned to unison B3's, or the instrument may be tuned a half-step or whole-step lower (essentially traditional tuning), and a capo placed on the first or second fret to bring the instrument back up to guitar pitch, or have a shorter scale length, and/or thinner strings like .007 ...

  7. Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    String instruments: harp, violins, violas, cellos, basses, frequently abbreviated to 'str', 'strs' or similar. If any soloists or a choir are called for, their parts are usually printed between the percussion/keyboards and the strings in the score. The basic order of the instruments, as seen above, is common to all of the shorthand systems.

  8. Flamenco guitar - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, luthiers made guitars to sell at a wide range of prices, largely based on the materials used and the number of decorations, to cater to the popularity of the instrument across all classes of people in Spain. [3] The cheapest guitars were often simple, basic instruments made from the less expensive woods such as cypress.

  9. List of European medieval musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    The instrument also made it into artwork on the Silk Road near China. 1451 A.D. Panpipes. Panflute An instrument of shepherds in the late Roman Empire, seen in 3rd century A.D. Christian art. The instrument was widespread, appearing in Chinese art from the Tang Dynasty featuring men on the Silk Road. 842-850 A.D., Carolingian Empire.