capo

Light, stylish, and built to squeeze right every time.

Light, stylish, and built to squeeze right every time.

Might squeeze unevenly on curvaceous fretboard radii.

$20

Dunlop Trigger Fly Capo
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Chalk it up to being raised by a folkie, perhaps, but I love capos. I’m excited by the chord voicings and melodic possibilities they enable. And I find them indispensable as songwriting and composition tools. This affection for capos means I’ve collected and used just about every major type from every major maker over the years. That said, I definitely have a few favorites. And I can now count Dunlop’s new Trigger Fly capo among them.

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The new design allows for the heavy and octave strings to be fretted at the same time and with the same pressure.

Peterborough, UK (June 25, 2018) -- After 2 years of development work, G7th are delighted to announce a new solution for 12-string capos, the patent-pending "Compensated String Pad" for the Newport and Heritage capo models.

So far, the only solution capo manufacturers have devised is to apply extreme tension to all 12 strings, inevitably pulling most of them out of tune. Now, G7th's unique ridged design allows for the heavy and octave strings to be fretted at the same time and with the same pressure, eliminating the need for excessive tension.

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The new capos feature Adaptive Radius Technology.

Peterborough, UK (February 15, 2018) -- Following its launch in 2016, G7th The Capo Company have released updated versions of their yoke-style Heritage guitar capos, including their ground-breaking Adaptive Radius Technology (ART).

On top of a few technical changes, such as making the adjustment knob shorter so it can be left behind the nut in a guitar case, the ART found in the Heritage has been finely honed to perfection.

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