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SUPER COOL capo gizmo! Saw Zoe Keating last night here in Portland --AMazing show! Thank you, Zoe for coming to town! Even my normally cynical 19 yo enjoyed it! I really appreciated your words about "Optimism" ! Peace J.D.Devros > Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:54:55 -0700 > From: looppool@cruzio.com > CC: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: OMG OT: Harmonic Capo > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > Hey all you looping guitar players, my wife just gave me the coolest > fucking late Christmas present > that I've ever received: It's going to have a huge impact on some of my > guitar playing. > > It's called the Harmonic Capo (made by Bob Kilgore: > http://www.weaseltrap.com/ ) > > It is a capo that you place on the 12th fret of an electric guitar that > has 6 individual > rubber stoppers whose height (and width) from above the fretboard can be > individually adjusted. > > Essentially, what it does is play continual 12th fret Barre chord > harmonics. > > Now, that is pretty cool by itself, but the truly groovy addition to > this concept is that it is designed so that if you actually fret any > string either > in back or in front of the capo, the strength height is lowered enough > so that the harmonic action > of the capo is disengaged and a normal note sounds (allowing for normal > melodies and/or chords to be played) > > What is so infinitely cool (at least to me who is not a guitarist but > plays one on TV) > is that you can tune the guitar like a zither........in other words, > you can tune to 6 scalar > notes (or your hearts content) and always be able to play harmonics in > this scale whilst > simultaneously playing leads as you strum or arpeggiate the harmonics. > > I set it up on my Fretless Strat tonight and just tuned my guitar to an > interesting Arabic Maqam > and then could alternate between playing bass lines on the lowest string > (tonic) and melodies > on all the other strings. > > Just goofing around with my M9 earlier tonight, I was able to use > double and half speeds to create three octaves of harmonic parts > and then solo over the resultant chimey 'soup' With all the harmonics > singing, I was able to play my fretless guitar with my eyes closed, > sliding in and out of consonance..........it's a really beautiful effect. > > My wife is amazing and I'm so happy that we had to wait to give each > other Christmas months later than normal. > > Woohoooo!!!! I'm psyced! > > rick walker > |