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Re: more swedish music



At 08:45 PM 1/19/02 -0500, monk wrote:
>...ale moller. he plays a
>really cool mando cello thing that has holes all over the neck, into which
>he inserts little thingys that act like capos for individual strings. he 
>can
>capo every string at a different fret and have open strings for some 
>chords
>but keep the relationships between the strings consistent. it's pretty 
>cool.
>i think the guy that does the mod for him has a patent on the thing.

That DOES sound pretty cool. In principle it's along the lines of Harvey 
Reid's Third Hand capo, with which you can rotate the sleeve pieces 
individually to capo only those strings you want to. You can also use two 
of them on the same neck for more combinations. 
<http://www.thirdhandcapo.com>

-t-