Capo bars

[Delwin D Fandrich]

So, where did the "r" come from?

Del

> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of C.
> E. Hood
> Sent: February 02, 2004 1:10 PM
> To: caut@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: RE: Capo bars
> 
> 
> Del, I think Capo Tasto, or head of the fingerboard, is the key 
> here.  You guitar players on the list will know what that 'capo' 
> is - a 'cheater' which lets us play in other keys but use the 
> easy chords, in other words to just raise the pitch of the guitar 
> a half step or whatever.  And so, a bar which bears on the 
> strings at the near end.  This began very early in the devel of 
> the piano, because without some downbearing on the strings the 
> increasingly heave hammers tended to push the strings up off the 
> nut a bit, or a lot, losing tone.  The upside down layout found 
> in the original Silbermann fpos and also the down-striking 
> actions was meant to do this - give a clean tone against the bang 
> of the hammer.  Simply increasing the downbearing angle of the 
> string to the tuning pin has the disadvantage of wearing grooves 
> in the wood nut of the early fpos.  (Maybe the grooves in the 
> current capo bars is due to too much angle of the string - how 
> much is really necessary for a clean to!
> ne?)  I have at my elbow an 1860 Viennese grand which has had a 
> capo bar added in the treble for obviously this purpose.  There 
> were experiments much earlier.
>      By the way if anybody would like to make me an offer on this 
> really nice 7 ft grand, let me know.  A fuller description and 
> photos on my website, www.fortepianos.pair.com.
>      Best, Margaret Hood
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Delwin D Fandrich <fandrich@pianobuilders.com>
> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:25:13 -0800
> Subject: RE: Capo bars
> 
> According to Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos by Edwin M. Good
> (Second Edition, 2001. Published by the Stanford University Press, ), capo
> d' astro is essentially a meaningless term (at least as applied to the
> piano) meaning "cap of the star." In other words it was a marketing term.
> Capo tastro is Italian for "cap of the key" which at least has some
> relationship to a component of the piano. Probably a more meaningful term
> would be "capotasto," also from Italian, mean
> d of the fingerboard."
> (According to the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary.)
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
> madelyn mrykalo
>   Sent: January 31, 2004 5:47 PM
>   To: College and University Technicians
>   Subject: RE: Capo bars
> 
> 
>   Is there a difference between capo tastro and capo d'astro?
> 
>   Delwin D Fandrich <fandrich@pianobuilders.com> wrote:
>     The capo tastro bar and the V-bar are two different things 
> even if they
> are most often part of the same casting. The capo-tastro bar is formed in
> the bottom part of the mold, the V-bar in the top.
> 
>     Del
> 
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