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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I've been using the same Victor as my primary for over 20 years, with a bunch of others as back-ups. |
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Location: enid, ok | I've never used a capo. Sorry for the intrusion. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by maxdaddy7271:
I've never used a capo. Sorry for the intrusion. That's not necessarily something to be proud of. You're denying yourself a lot of sounds and possibilities just to maintain a snobbish attitude. I know you made the comment to be humorous and I'm not trying to come down on you.
Whatever helps me to get the best sound possible for a particular tune, is a good thing. Sometimes that's playing with a capo and sometimes it's playing without one....... |
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| I've got 2 G7s - a standard and a 12 string.
But I never use either of 'em. |
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Location: NJ | That would make YOU a Snob with Too Much Disposable Income . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by cliff:
That would make YOU a Snob with Too Much Disposable Income . . . Not really. When my parents died, I used the inheritence and bought a capo.
Too much disposable income from buying a capo????? You're stretching.... |
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| I think the hairball was picking on me not you.
Always been this paranoid paul? |
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Location: Jet City | Anyone play wit a partial or modified capo? I've only seen one out there. There's a local guy here named Carl Tosten who modifies a capo (Shubb I think). He cut it up into six sections so he could change up which strings are fretted.
The guy's pretty good too. I just met him at a local music store. He's an endorser and rep for Dean Markley here too. I was really impressed with the sound he got out of the Trilogy pickup system.
I found a link of him on youtube, but I'm blocked here at work. Maybe you all can see it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyd8gYPIDVs |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Temp did a demo for one at NAMM a couple years ago. One came with the OFC, but I've never used it. Not because I'm a snob. Because I'm too dumb to figure out how to use it. |
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Location: Jet City | Mark, Carl's really closer to you. He's a Spokane dude. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Spokane isn't close, and after watching him on YouTube, Carl isn't close to me in any way. |
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Location: Jet City | I didn't see the video, just found the link. I did see him demo the pickup at the sore here. He's one of those guitar slappin string tappin kinda guys. Like Kaki, but much less desirable looking.
I thought Spokane was closer to you than to me. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Spokane's about 420 from me. Maybe a bit less for you. Like Boise, it's one of those places that's not close to anywhere. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Damon67:
Anyone play wit a partial or modified capo? If you check the picture in the "Funny Faces" thread you'll see I'm using a standard Shubb and a Shubb partial, simultaneously.
The father of the partial capo is Harvey Reid. Harvey is a fabulous player and a thoroughly nice guy. He came up with the idea of cutting up shubbs 30-odd years ago, and then went on to develop the Third-Hand capo with Jeff Hickey. His recorded and live work since has featured modified capos extensively
I occasionally work as consultant/product demonstrator for G-band capo, a unique single and 2-string capo with many creative possibilites (My demos are on the G-band website and on youtube) The Shubb & Kyser partials capo the inner strings, the G-band capos the outer strings. Big difference. The Third-hand capo can do both-ish
There's a few other partial capo guys to check out, such as my good friend Randall Williams, who demos the Short-Cut for Kyser and has published the definitive teaching material for partial capos, and the amazing Trace Bundy.
For those of you who were at Amelia, you may remember I did a short demo on how to use a Shubb partial to simulate DADGAD tuning |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
For those of you who were at Amelia, you may remember I did a short demo on how to use a Shubb partial to simulate DADGAD tuning Kinda like the '60s. If you remember being there you weren't really there!
I need next year to be here so I can remember all the things I forgot to remember at the 2nd AI gathering! |
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Location: East Tennessee | I've been thinking of getting a drop D capo.
I'm also thinking of a G7 12 string version and if I like it I would probably get rid of the standard version to recoup some $$$.
What did I say!!! Get rid of a capo? :eek: |
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Location: NJ | if I ever start another band it will be called "we don't use no stinkin' capos" |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by alpep:
if I ever start another band it will be called "we don't use no stinkin' capos" and all instruments will be capo'ed at the 3rd fret or higher :p |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Play really effectively...buy a baritone and capo it up 2 frets... ;)
I use either Kyser, Dunlop, or the G7, kind of depending on what I'm doing. For quick stuff, the Kyser/Dunlop works great. If I want to play extended (ie, more than a song or two) capoed and not lose intonation so badly, I use the G7. I have a Kyser for my 12-string...haven't bought the longer G7 yet.
I thought about one of those "harmonic" capos, but didn't hear enough solid good review to merit the $$ for me. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Capo Guy:
I've been thinking of getting a drop D capo.
In my opinion the Drop-D capo is a completely redundant product, as you can do the same trick with any standard capo which is open at one end, such as Shubb, Kyser, Victor, G7 and the rest |
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