[LUTE] Re: Capos

Must have sent too many mails today, as this one never arrived: 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 past.

[LUTE] Re: Capos

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=br&ovchn=BIZ&ovtac=CMP&ovcpn=Accessories&ovcrn=Dunlop+Professional +Guitar+Capo+%2D+Flat

[LUTE] Re: Capos

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. To get on or off this list see list infor

[LUTE] Re: Capos

>> 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

[LUTE] Re: Capos and Lutes

From: Christopher Wilke 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 up data for your "new

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

I've never looked into the scholarship behind this, so can't vouch, but this appears on the surface to be amusing and informative: Eugene At 10:18 AM 3/24/2008, Stewart McCoy wrote: >Dear David, > >I would also be interested to know more about how ca

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

If the "Capo Museum" is right, your guitar Stewart is from the mid-19th c! - Original Message - From: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:18 PM Subject: [LUTE] Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician) Dear David, I would also be int

[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 the yoke capo with screw and the wooden Spanish capo cejilla were i

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

nday, March 24, 2008 4:07 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 yo

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

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 To get on or off this list

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

Right Eugene, you're the expert! TXS for the link! G. - Original Message - From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lute Net" Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Capos

[LUTE] Re: Capos (olim Karamazov as a circus musician)

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 1