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Post by PistolPete on Dec 6, 2017 17:00:29 GMT
I think I already stated in my post above why I wanted to try it. I'm delighted your trusty capo cost you £15, but I don't think spending £48 plus additional charges represents an outrageous outlay. I already have Shubb and G7th capos and simply wanted to try a 'stirrup' style capo in brass to see how it would work and because I liked the look of it. Hope this helps I apologise if my post came across as sarcastic - it genuinely wasn't intended as such. I really am curious as to what made you feel the Yamaha was worth the extra money. Whilst I agree that in the scheme of a new set of car tyres, or a Martin D18 £60 isn't a particularly grand sum, it does seem to me like a lot to throw at a capo. Although at half the price of G7's stirrup capo, I'm certainly not trying to suggest you were being ripped off. My tendency to inevitably lose the damn things may also give me a somewhat different point of view as well...
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Post by minorkey on Dec 6, 2017 17:28:02 GMT
Pencil and a couple of hair bobbles!
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Post by Martin on Dec 6, 2017 17:45:56 GMT
I think I already stated in my post above why I wanted to try it. I'm delighted your trusty capo cost you £15, but I don't think spending £48 plus additional charges represents an outrageous outlay. I already have Shubb and G7th capos and simply wanted to try a 'stirrup' style capo in brass to see how it would work and because I liked the look of it. Hope this helps I apologise if my post came across as sarcastic - it genuinely wasn't intended as such. I really am curious as to what made you feel the Yamaha was worth the extra money. Whilst I agree that in the scheme of a new set of car tyres, or a Martin D18 £60 isn't a particularly grand sum, it does seem to me like a lot to throw at a capo. Although at half the price of G7's stirrup capo, I'm certainly not trying to suggest you were being ripped off. My tendency to inevitably lose the damn things may also give me a somewhat different point of view as well... No worries at all, I was really just looking for something in that style and it ticked all the boxes at a lower price point than Elliot or as you say the G7th. Funnily enough, it started when I was looking for a banjo capo. My Shubb and G7th banjo capos don't fit one of my banjos and both kept popping off, so I wondered about the stirrup type. I was going to get the Paige but liked the look of the brass John Pearse capos. When I couldn't get those I stumled across the Yamaha and it got great reviews, looked cool and seemed to be a good performer as well. Maybe it was a bit impulsive, but I reckoned that as well as my guitar I could at least use it on the banjo albeit it's aa bit big. Oh well
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Post by Cams on Dec 6, 2017 23:12:13 GMT
I got a G7th Heritage for Christmas last year and I really like it. It's probably my favourite capo. I like my Sterner Eccentric Capo a lot and it was my favourite before I got the Heritage. I don't think you can get them any more though - I got mine at sternercapo.se probably 15 or more years ago now. I use a Kyser Quickchange for some ceilidh band gigs, but for backup I use a Quickdraw - it's the best sliding capo I've found and it works well for changing keys during sets of tunes. I've never really used a Shubb and I don't like the G7th Performance capos. I do like my Dan Crary one. I've never tried an Elliott, though I'd like to.
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Post by minorkey on Dec 7, 2017 8:14:29 GMT
There you go... Attachments:
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 7, 2017 8:49:39 GMT
There you go... The only issue I've found with this method is it does tend to break the lead... I wonder if the strip-of-elastic or the bit-of-webbing-with-a-lever will ever come back into fashion as capo designs?
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Post by ocarolan on Dec 7, 2017 10:20:34 GMT
I sincerely hope Hamilton capos never come back - they were terrible, but very much used in the 1960s! I used one to play John Martyn's Seven Black Roses after having seen him, as a curly headed teenager with intelligible singing, play it at the sing Out Folk Club in Crewe just when "The Tumbler" was about to be released, ? 1968 ?. The capo is moved several times during the choon. Were you there too Andy P ? Keith
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Post by Andy P on Dec 7, 2017 11:36:25 GMT
I sincerely hope Hamilton capos never come back - they were terrible, but very much used in the 1960s! I used one to play John Martyn's Seven Black Roses after having seen him, as a curly headed teenager with intelligible singing, play it at the sing Out Folk Club in Crewe just when "The Tumbler" was about to be released, ? 1968 ?. The capo is moved several times during the choon. Were you there too Andy P ? Keith I think your singing has always been intelligible Keith, but your hair was wavy rather than curly. Ah, just re-read your post and realise you said curly-headed, not curly-haired, so yes you're right Anyway I think I missed that gig. I was probably at the Beau Brummel club (annoyingly also on Sundays) that night, in my mohair suit, dancing to Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Edwin Starr or maybe Lucas and the Mike Cotton Sound. No, I'm not embarrassed to admit that Looking back, I was clearly having an identity crisis - folkie or mod, mod or folkie? The two were utterly incompatible, but my mod persona was on a mission to get off with a girl called Anne from Knighton in Shropshire (when I eventually succeeded it was a bit of an anti-climax actually...) I think I still have my trusty old Hamilton capo. I used to wedge a small coin under the fabric bit to make it extra tight.
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Post by andyhowell on Dec 7, 2017 12:41:35 GMT
When I visited the North American Guitar Michale Watts gave me a capo to use. I almost fell off the chair when he told me how much it cost — £170!
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Post by earthbalm on Dec 7, 2017 13:23:41 GMT
I'm more than happy with my Shubbs and over the moon with the G7 Celtic what I done buyed from Robbie J.
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Post by minorkey on Dec 7, 2017 15:09:21 GMT
I wonder if the strip-of-elastic or the bit-of-webbing-with-a-lever will ever come back into fashion as capo designs? I had one of those, it snapped!
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Post by earthbalm on Dec 9, 2017 17:30:48 GMT
I know that it is sad of me but it's taken days to find this secreted in the depths of my guitar gear:
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Post by jonnymosco on Dec 9, 2017 19:06:51 GMT
I sincerely hope Hamilton capos never come back - they were terrible, but very much used in the 1960s! View AttachmentKeith I still have one, must say it's not been used since the 80s - I seem to remember, if not aligned carefully, it scraped the top or bottom edge of the fingerboard. Jonny
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Post by andyhowell on Dec 13, 2017 18:35:52 GMT
Ah nostalgia!
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Post by Wild Violet on Dec 14, 2017 9:39:51 GMT
I have a McKinney-Elliott hybrid that is extremely nice - a xmas gift from a while back with my initials engraved "to prevent me from selling it during tough times". It's not quite wide enough to go past the 5th fret on my Martin (1 3/4" mod v neck, quite big) but works up the neck on everything else. It's a lovely thing, very small profile and sits comfortably behind the nut when not in use. As much as I like it, I probably use my Planet waves NS 95% of the time... this is the one: Elliot Capo
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