From: Christopher Wilke chriswi...@yahoo.com
Subject:[LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments
Tom,
Nice thinking. On a recording, I doubt few, if any people would
notice that you capo-ized. Just to keep your early music street
cred, be sure to make
The big problem is having a capo which provides enough pressure to
hold
all the strings down without buzzing.
Or conversely, too much pressure. You need a capo that you can adjust
the pressure of. The Dunlop takes a lot of work to adjust,
particularly when you think that every fret is
I've never looked into the scholarship behind this, so can't vouch, but
this appears on the surface to be amusing and informative:
http://web.telia.com/~u86505074/capomuseum/
Eugene
At 10:18 AM 3/24/2008, Stewart McCoy wrote:
Dear David,
I would also be interested to know more about how capos
If the Capo Museum is right, your guitar Stewart is from the mid-19th c!
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From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:18 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)
Dear David,
I
At 10:54 AM 3/24/2008, G. Crona wrote:
If the Capo Museum is right, your guitar Stewart is from the mid-19th c!
I don't know the specifics of Stewart's guit[t]ar or which page you are
considering at the Capo Museum, but Both the yoke capo with screw and the
wooden Spanish capo cejilla were
:07 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)
At 10:54 AM 3/24/2008, G. Crona wrote:
If the Capo Museum is right, your guitar Stewart is from the mid-19th c!
I don't know the specifics of Stewart's guit[t]ar or which page you are
considering at the Capo Museum, but Both
At 11:10 AM 3/24/2008, G. Crona wrote:
Sorry ;)
http://web.telia.com/~u86505074/capomuseum/Above/above.htm
Hmmm... I don't know, but suspect that to be a typographic error in which
18th century morphed into 1800s somewhere between mind and fingers.
Eugene
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Stewart wrote:
The big problem is having a capo which provides enough pressure to hold
all the strings down without buzzing. Modern ones use elastic or a kind
of spring mechanism, but I don't know how feasible that was in the
On Mar 24, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote:
Modern ones use elastic or a kind
of spring mechanism
Not all. I have an earlier version of this one:
http://www.activemusician.com/item--MC.14FD?
ref=brovchn=BIZovtac=CMPovcpn=Accessoriesovcrn=Dunlop+Professional
+Guitar+Capo+%2D+Flat
On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote:
By the way, I was given the instrument a few years ago by John Catch,
the atomic energy expert and long-standing member of the Viola da
Gamba
Society of Great Britain. He said he bought it for 10/- in the
1950s at
a jumble sale
10/-
howard posner wrote:
Modern ones use elastic or a kind
of spring mechanism
Not all. I have an earlier version of this one:
Easy to use and durable
The Dunlop is simple but genial, very good and easily adjustable. I've used
it extensibly.
G.
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