Hi Leonard,
I should think a capo --in theory, anyway-- could work at most any
fret; just adjust your frets accordingly in The Pattern. (You'll miss
out on that tastino goodness unless you can fashion one to stick down
where you need it but I think Dan Winheld had a trick for that, too)
You'll move fewer frets, however, if you place it at the 2nd, 5th and
(maybe) the 4th fret.
Btw, it's pretty easy to make a quick-n-dirty capo: Use a pencil and a
shoelace in a figure-eight around the pencil ends behind the neck.
Sean
On Oct 29, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Leonard Williams wrote:
I know this has come up on several occasions‹Capo with anything but
equal
temperament doesn¹t work. I¹ve noticed, however, a pattern to meantone
fret placements, the space between frets being (starting at the nut,
relative to ET placement) long to 1st, short to 2nd, long to 3rd,
short to
4th, etc. Would a capo work if placed at the second or fourth frets,
thereby maintaining the pattern? I don¹t use or even have a capo, so I
can¹t try this out. Any adventurous souls out there?
Thanks and regards,
Leonard Williams
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