<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>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, meaning "head of the fingerboard." (According to the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----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 </DIV> <DIV>Is there a difference between capo tastro and capo d'astro? Delwin D Fandrich <fandrich@pianobuilders.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px = solid">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 _______________________________________________<BR= >caut list info: = https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> Vince = Mrykalo University of Utah <HR SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. <A = = href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21608/*http://webhosting.yahoo.com/p= s/sb/">Try it!</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>