Variable chord-forming capo

Details Variable chord-forming capo Variable chord-forming capo

1978-06-22

1980-01-15

Franklin, Lawrence R.

Music

Instruments

Stringed

G10D 304

Patent

active

041832795

ABSTRACT:
Improvements in a capotasto, also known as a capo, which in its improved form is a variable cord-forming capo, for use in playing stringed musical instruments such as guitars, banjos, and mandolins. On the pin of the device are a number of pivotable clamping discs with a flattened surface on the periphery which hold selected strings against a fret, or release the same when the clamping disc is further rotated. The pin is held in place over the fret board and strings of the instrument by a side-support member fastened to a resilient strap on which there is a series of longitudinally placed eyelets. The resilient strap is placed under the neck of the instrument and holds the pin with its clamping discs above the strings by tension on the resilient strap by selection of a particular eyelet through which to pass the distal end of the pin.

REFERENCES:
patent: 551254 (1895-12-01), Brand
patent: 2961913 (1960-11-01), Popkin
patent: 3011380 (1961-12-01), Brimhall
patent: 3680427 (1972-08-01), Valentino
patent: 3995523 (1976-12-01), Clarke

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