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Location: Converse, Texas | Is there such a thing? |
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Location: Scotland | The Shubb banjo capo works on mandolin and Kyser make a Mandolin capo. The cheapest way is take a Dunlop strap capo and cut it to length |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I've seen the Kyser at Elderly Instruments...it is billed on the package as a "banjo/mandolin" capo.
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Location: Florida | Ditto on the Dunlop strap capo, but I didn't even have to cut mine. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Assuming there is such a thing, does it come in a left handed version? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Next thing I know, you philistines will be asking about a capo for a violin. Where in hell did generations of position playing go? Next thing I know, some stupe is going to ask where he can get a capo for his upright bass, where can this insanity end, a concert orchestra violin section all playing behind Paris Hilton with capos? |
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Location: Scotland | Say your're playing mandolin with a singer who is performing a particular song in G# because it suits his or her vocal range. How do you play all the really cool 1st position open-string stuff on a mandolin without a capo? Simple, you can't. Yes, a good player can easily play in any key without a capo but closed position & open position scales have completely different characters. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Can you get a capo for Paris Hilton? Now would that be up two frets or three? |
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Location: SoCal | I was looking for a capo for my sax and was wondering what everybody else uses? |
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Location: NJ | try a toilet plunger. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Hey Bill,
In Reference to The Left Handed version.
Either turn the Capo upside Down or just buy The Left handed Version they Sell. :D
Did I really say That?? :eek: YEP! ;) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Paul T
Who the hell hangs around with anybody that sings in G#. A kick in the butt will get them up to an honest A, or a threat of emasculation should lower them i/2 step to G if presented with enough honesty. If none of that works, play the instrumentals in mixylodian and the folkies will think the dissonance is "Bob Dylanish".
Anything but a capo, after all the mandolin players respectibility is at stake.
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Location: SoCal | I'm not certain if you play a mandolin that you can claim respectibility.
My attitude is "whateve it takes to get the job done". I'll put a capo on anything on which I can put a capo, if it gets the job done. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Amen Brother Moody!! Preach It!!!
I'm with you on this one. as Long as it gets the job done. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Originally from Paul Moody:
whatever it takes to get the job done
I wonder if a capo on Paris Hilton will get the job done? |
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Location: SoCal | Now that's a job I wouldn't want. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Sorry, it's true
Mandolin players have no respectability, they are considered fiddle player wannabes. Except when a stunning instrumental break is needed to save the boring, cliched, guitar failures from the proverbial hook of stage left. Many a boring gig has been saved by the mandolin god. Kneel down you merely competent players, and thank the powers for the mandolin break that saves your sorry guitar ass, |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Well said, Bailey! |
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Location: Lincoln, Nebraska | Bailey, you're my new hero...
As for the original posting subject, though I've always considered my LH 1st finger as my own portable capo, I understand why one would take advantage of a capo to access the "drone" notes of the tonic and dominant with an "open" string. Certainly in some folk styles, Celtic, BG, Irish Whaling Songs, you don't stray out of the diatonic arena.
In other more harmonically complex genres, a capo would be far less functional.
But respectability???...
I'm just happy when they don't call my mandolin a Ukulele. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Thanks Ted and Hizzoner
Secretly us mandolin players love our guitar playing backups, and we would be nothing without them. But, you have to stick it to them once in a while so they know that a mandolin has eight STEEL strings and the lowly uke four wimpy nylon sutures flapping in the breeze created by a good mandolin solo.
We now will hear from the uke players about a UKE CAPO, GASP!!!!
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