Thanks, Andy! I kinda hoped there was a parrot involved somewhere.
    There is the spider capo. you run into problems with those when you try to fret the uncapoed strings, so I've never used them. My Mother owns a nice mahogany Martin, which I borrow that whenever I get half a chance. Actually, the main the reason I use open tunings is because I switched from folk-harp, and they make more sense to my harper mind. retuning 3-6 strings every song is still a heck of a lot easier than tuning 32 twice in a night.
    "Any (strike-through)lame excuse (end strike-through) logical reason to own another guitar should be cultivated, not ignored." ~ Bee-dubya-ell. I would like that put on my gravestone.
Kristoffer