capotasto.
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
Meaning & usage
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
Where this word comes from
From Italian capotasto, from capo (“head”) + tasto (“fret”).
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