So, where did the "r" come from? Del > -----Original Message----- > From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of C. > E. Hood > Sent: February 02, 2004 1:10 PM > To: caut@ptg.org > Subject: Re: RE: Capo bars > > > Del, I think Capo Tasto, or head of the fingerboard, is the key > here. You guitar players on the list will know what that 'capo' > is - a 'cheater' which lets us play in other keys but use the > easy chords, in other words to just raise the pitch of the guitar > a half step or whatever. And so, a bar which bears on the > strings at the near end. This began very early in the devel of > the piano, because without some downbearing on the strings the > increasingly heave hammers tended to push the strings up off the > nut a bit, or a lot, losing tone. The upside down layout found > in the original Silbermann fpos and also the down-striking > actions was meant to do this - give a clean tone against the bang > of the hammer. Simply increasing the downbearing angle of the > string to the tuning pin has the disadvantage of wearing grooves > in the wood nut of the early fpos. (Maybe the grooves in the > current capo bars is due to too much angle of the string - how > much is really necessary for a clean to! > ne?) I have at my elbow an 1860 Viennese grand which has had a > capo bar added in the treble for obviously this purpose. There > were experiments much earlier. > By the way if anybody would like to make me an offer on this > really nice 7 ft grand, let me know. A fuller description and > photos on my website, www.fortepianos.pair.com. > Best, Margaret Hood > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Delwin D Fandrich <fandrich@pianobuilders.com> > To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org> > Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:25:13 -0800 > Subject: RE: Capo bars > > According to Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos by Edwin M. Good > (Second Edition, 2001. Published by the Stanford University Press, ), capo > d' astro is essentially a meaningless term (at least as applied to the > piano) meaning "cap of the star." In other words it was a marketing term. > Capo tastro is Italian for "cap of the key" which at least has some > relationship to a component of the piano. Probably a more meaningful term > would be "capotasto," also from Italian, mean > d of the fingerboard." > (According to the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary.) > > -----Original Message----- > From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of > madelyn mrykalo > Sent: January 31, 2004 5:47 PM > To: College and University Technicians > Subject: RE: Capo bars > > > Is there a difference between capo tastro and capo d'astro? > > Delwin D Fandrich <fandrich@pianobuilders.com> wrote: > The capo tastro bar and the V-bar are two different things > even if they > are most often part of the same casting. The capo-tastro bar is formed in > the bottom part of the mold, the V-bar in the top. > > Del > > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > Vince Mrykalo > University of Utah > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------- > -- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > > > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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