Yes, very similar to mine made from a clothes peg. I suggest trying one
made from simple materials for a test and, if it works, make a nice one
with decent wood. Necessity IS sometimes the mother of inventions!
Thank you for the photo.
Colin Hill
On 16/11/2012 22:01, Leonard Williams wrote:
I've attached a photo of a simple wedge capo I use. It's held in place
by string tension. The notch is positioned so that the string pulls the
capo against both the soundboard and the keybox.
Regards,
Leonard Williams
From: Augusto de Ornellas Abreu <[email protected]
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Date: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [HG-new] Capo without capos…
Some pictures might help us understand your capo design, Ruth!
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Ruth Bramley <[email protected]
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Hi Arle
I regularly tune my trompette up to D, which is fine. I also have a
homemade capo that I occasionally put under the trompette if I want,
say, a G. This consists of a prism-shaped piece of wood with a small
notch cut into it. This sits on the soundboard, with the trompette
string in the notch, and acts as a nut/bridge. I can move it along
the soundboard to get the correct note.If you're not happy tuning
the trompette up to D, you could leave it at C, but put something
like this wooden block under to raise it to D.There's no reason why
you couldn't also make one to go under the gros bourdon to put it up
to A. I'd leave the petit bourdon off the wheel, and then on the
chanterelles play either a D or an A.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Ruthie
On 16/11/2012 18:11, Arle Lommel wrote:
Hi all,
Got an unusual question. I have a C/G instrument but have been asked to
provide a drone in D as part of an Advent processional as part of a program put
on by my children’s school at the Berliner Dom in a few weeks. (I know, drone
only is boring, but that is what they need.)
The problem I face is that they need a rich drone sound in Ds and As, but
there is no way I'm going to tune directly up (last time I tried I lost a drone
string, and I can tell even going to C♯ that the tension is higher than I want
to go).
My instrument does not have drone capos. While I have thought of making
some using harp levers and wooden supports under them, I've never gotten around
to it. (I've also thought of nondestructively fitting a fret board under my
drones with a clip-type capo, but that is a major project and I don't have the
tools right now to do it.
So the question is if any of you have any good suggestions for how to (a)
easily and (b) cheaply raise the pitch of my drone strings. I don't want to
restring for this event (nor do I want to buy new strings at the moment). I
tried using clothes pins to grip the strings, but I find that they do not grip
the strings firmly enough, so the results only work if I grip the clothes pin
by hand and force it to shut harder. Not an ideal way to do it. So any ideas
would be most welcome.
Best,
ARle
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