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---- David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com> wrote: 
> Hmmm, so, what do you call 1) a capo-d'astro (or capo d'asto) bar, 2) an 
> agraffe, 3) a wippen, etc etc?

Exactly!  If you trace any of these terms to their original language, they are descriptive of their function, not some silly relationship to what it looks like.

Frank Emerson