Klarinet Archive - Posting 000372.txt from 2000/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] "Capo 3"
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 10:14:20 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Bergamin [mailto:a.bergamin@-----.it]
>
> You are right.
> "Capo" is an abbreviation for "capotasto".
> My dictionary gives "bridge" as translation but I don't think
> it's the right
> term.
>
I never knew it was an abbreviation, so, although I knew what it was, I
never knew where the term "capo" came from. "Tasto" is the fingerboard (like
"sul tasto" an orchestral string instruction to bow near or over the
fingerboard), and "capo" is the head or top or, by extension, beginning,
like "da capo." Capotasto then would be the top or beginning of the guitar
fingerboard, which is what a capo changes, making the fingerboard
effectively shorter.

Cool!

Karl Krelove

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