Thread: 12 String Capo
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Old 11-16-2010, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Howard Emerson View Post
I place the leading edge of the capo directly down the middle of the fret wire and squeeze tight. The rubber gives enough to grab all the strings and because it's not in between the frets there is very little tuning distortion because the pressure is directly on the fret and not in between.

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I tried this and it seems to work well. Thanks!

I think the key to this is that the rubber on the capo has to be supple enough to cover both the "big" string and the "little" string. My older Schubb capo seems to have dried out and is too hard to compress enough to do this. My newer Schubb however, is much softer...works better.
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