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New type of guitar capo

19 Sep 03 - 10:34 PM (#1022175)
Subject: New type of guitar capo
From: Sandy Mc Lean

Cape Breton guitarist Archie Gillis has invented and is developing a totally new type of capo. It is designed to allow open tuned chords on a closed tuned guitar. Check his website at..    gillismusic.com
       Slainte,
          Sandy


19 Sep 03 - 11:47 PM (#1022188)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: Amos

Looks like he is prototyping it and not selling it yet, correct?
A


20 Sep 03 - 12:08 AM (#1022193)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: Sandy Mc Lean

Yes Amos, that's correct.


20 Sep 03 - 09:49 AM (#1022195)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: John Hardly

That is clever. Like a "third hand capo" except that it is unobtrusive enough to fret on either side of the capo.


20 Sep 03 - 02:43 PM (#1022240)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: Mark Clark

Boy do I need one of these. The main page says it “provides the musician with a number of advantages including improved musical ability” (emphasis is mine). I can't wait to get one of these.

      - Mark


22 Sep 03 - 08:33 AM (#1022982)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: GUEST,don

I need all the help I can get! When I was a kid I had a tin guitar that you played by turning a crank. It payed better than anything that I've owned since. lol
             don


22 Sep 03 - 08:44 AM (#1022988)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: McGrath of Harlow

"Closed tuned" - that's a new one on me. Presumably it means any tuning which can't be classed as an open tuning, not just standard tuning?


22 Sep 03 - 01:47 PM (#1023080)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Looks wierd. I'd try it out on an old beater if the price was right, but it'd have to turn out to be something I just couldn't live without before I'd stick it on the Santa Cruz.

Bruce


22 Sep 03 - 02:41 PM (#1023109)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: Clinton Hammond

what a WOMBAT!


22 Sep 03 - 10:39 PM (#1023337)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: Bob Bolton

G'day Clinton,

Are you taking the name of our rotund marsupial in vain? Careful, we might send over a couple of vombatus ursinus to undermine your house!

(Unless you were invoking the British army's portable artillery: WOMBAT = Weapon Of Mobility Battalion Anti-Tank.)

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton


23 Sep 03 - 05:27 AM (#1023401)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: mooman

I tend to think Clinton means a waste of money, brains and time and, if that is the case, I tend to agree with him!

Peace

moo


23 Sep 03 - 01:05 PM (#1023612)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: Clinton Hammond

Mooman wins...

:-)


23 Sep 03 - 07:21 PM (#1023932)
Subject: RE: New type of guitar capo
From: Raggytash

A device which seeming