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Topic: Capo? |
Stephen Gambrell
From:
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Posted 11 Jul 2015 9:16 pm |
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| Just watched Emmylou and Rodney Crowell on ACL. Steve Fishell was playing steel guitar, and on one song, it looked like he had a capo on that Zum. Y'all heard of that? |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 11 Jul 2015 9:26 pm
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| Yep! Buddy Emmons used a capo on several songs in his younger days. |
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Barry Blackwood
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John Brabant
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Calais, VT, USA
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 15 Jul 2015 11:19 pm
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| That's the capo. Seemed like he was doing a lot of hammers and pulloffs, with open strings, like a dobro player. I wish I'd noticed which fret he had the capo on, and which strings. |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2015 1:09 pm
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He did appear to use the pedals (or levers) a few times and it stayed in tune. Every time I've seen a capo used on pedal steel it's fouled the tuning up.
Might have to try my Liberty capo just for fun.
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Brett Lanier
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Madison, TN
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Posted 29 Jul 2015 9:50 am
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| A Stevens dobro bar works pretty well with my Emmons. Flip it on it's side and slide it under the strings. It has just the right amount of upward pressure where the notes ring clear but doesn't mess with the tuning. |
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Tom Quinn
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Posted 29 Jul 2015 11:08 am
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Traditional Cajun pedal steel playing has a lot of bar movement and pull-ons etc...
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Patrick Strain
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Binghamton/Gilbertsville, NY
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Posted 29 Jul 2015 11:49 am
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I saw a player at a festival using a steel bar under the strings as a capo. I didn't get his name, but it was the first time I'd seen someone do that.
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2015 2:28 am
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Figure out the height you need, you can pick up delrin or aluminum bar on Ebay really easy. It helps a bit to put a flat spot on the bottom, and the closer you can get over the needed width without the strings falling off the less likely it is to knock it out of tune. A regular capo makes 2nd and 3rd fret pulloffs a lot harder. My MSA SuperSlide has raised aluminum "frets" that took some thinking, I finally found a notched piece of plastic that would fit over the fret and hold a thin delrin rod on top. The notched piece was in between the handle and the wide blade thing on a kitchen spatula. Now I guess I... hmmm, that's why I don't eat scrambled eggs anymore. Probably bad for me anyway.
(One really cool thing you can do is put it at the 5th, 7th, 12th or 19th fret and BEAT on the strings behind the capo. Celestial, and all.) |
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