capotasto

noun

capotasto

noun

Etymology From Italian capotasto, from capo (“head”) + tasto (“fret”).

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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A device, placed across the strings of a fretted instrument such as a guitar, to shorten the strings and thus allow upward transposition without altered fingering

Synonyms
capo

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