The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #143149 Message #3302844
Posted By: Don Firth
05-Feb-12 - 10:09 PM
Thread Name: Capo Curiosities
Subject: RE: Capo Curiosities
"Choker."
I have a couple of them. They've been around a long time, maybe centuries. Flamenco guitarists use them a lot, not to change keys, but, essentially, to shorten the guitar neck and bring the frets closer together for fast fingering of runs ("falsettas") and such.
When I got my Arcangel Fernandez flamenco guitar in 1961, I found one of them in the string box in the case the guitar came in. Standard equipment. I prefer them for nylon-string guitars.
The Spanish word for them is çejilla, pronounced "say-HEE-yah."
I often use a Shubb (got two of them), but I prefer the çejilla.
Don Firth
P. S. Memorabilia. Hmm. Gotta think about that.