• From: Renfrewshire, Scotland
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Topic: Capo revelation

Isn't it wonderful how things all of a sudden become very clear to you?

I use a capo quite often and have found it frustrating that when doing so things started to sound out of tune. I was starting to blame all sorts of things - technical and physical. But then it struck me after having a good look at my capo when it was fitted. It was clamping the strings right down onto the fretboard. This got me thinking that this must stretch the strings more than they need to be stretched, so I loosened it of ever so slightly. Just enough so that the strings were ringing clear but were not clamped right down.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE!

You know, you hear folk talking about little technical things like this and think bahh what difference can such a small detail make? A huge one!

All this time sounding like an alley cat sorted in the blink of an eye. Makes you question your own sanity.

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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Re: Capo revelation

<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">

good post Al.


I cannot adjust my capo, I have one of those clamp hard down things.

idont really notice my string stretching much though, after i have played my guitar I stick it on the stand or my twelve stringer goes on the wall and more times than not it is still in concert pitch.

But I can see why it will make a difference, I might buy an adjustable clamping cappo  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">


Ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending