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Don Bacon · Post by **Don Bacon** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:26 pm

Is there any practical musical advantage of having a capo which depresses only certain selected strings at a given fret location?

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:30 pm

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:42 pm

Have you invented one?

Don Bacon · Post by **Don Bacon** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:56 pm

I designed one for my keyboard (see fingerfriendlyguitar.com) but it appears that my design for a standard capo would be the only one with practical application - if Aloysius Holly is to be believed (and I do).

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:14 pm

That's one massive capo

Don Bacon · Post by **Don Bacon** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 9:22 pm

it takes two (of course) but very little difference in size from a standard, elastic band style capo.

peepmans · Post by **peepmans** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:30 pm

i didn't know that capo,s can be used with keyborde,and know a capo using the guitar.a normal capo that works like a vinger over all the strings (barree) at a given position.when you could and would surpress
strings individually there were too many options ,farvedged i would say and go back to the piano is my advice

peepmans

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:19 pm

It's just not worth fretting about...

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:25 pm

Don Bacon wrote:Is there any practical musical advantage of having a capo which depresses only certain selected strings at a given fret location?

what, like this?

http://www.spidercapo.com/

must be, people buy them.

afcollett · Post by **afcollett** » Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:16 pm

For guitar I've used one called The third hand capo for well over a decade. Its good for when things are getting a bit stale.

Use of a capo