I was a happy as well as heavy capo user on lutes, in my days of plastic & metal wound strings and equal fretting. But all gut on a R-lute means from very thin to very thick strings, something the average capo cannot handle very well. On top of that, unequal fretting (and even in ET you'll need to adjust your frets to get better in tune) combined with a capo means all hell breaks loose when you have to do a programme with capo on/off all the time. I prefer to transpose these days. Better sound, anyway; size matters where it concerns string length.
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