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RE: OMG OT: Harmonic Capo + Zoe Keating



SUPER COOL capo gizmo!
Saw Zoe Keating last night here in Portland --AMazing show! Thank you, Zoe for coming to town! Even my normally cynical 19 yo enjoyed it! I really appreciated your words about "Optimism" !
Peace
J.D.Devros
 
> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:54:55 -0700
> From: looppool@cruzio.com
> CC: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: OMG OT: Harmonic Capo
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
> Hey all you looping guitar players, my wife just gave me the coolest
> fucking late Christmas present
> that I've ever received: It's going to have a huge impact on some of my
> guitar playing.
>
> It's called the Harmonic Capo (made by Bob Kilgore:
> http://www.weaseltrap.com/ )
>
> It is a capo that you place on the 12th fret of an electric guitar that
> has 6 individual
> rubber stoppers whose height (and width) from above the fretboard can be
> individually adjusted.
>
> Essentially, what it does is play continual 12th fret Barre chord
> harmonics.
>
> Now, that is pretty cool by itself, but the truly groovy addition to
> this concept is that it is designed so that if you actually fret any
> string either
> in back or in front of the capo, the strength height is lowered enough
> so that the harmonic action
> of the capo is disengaged and a normal note sounds (allowing for normal
> melodies and/or chords to be played)
>
> What is so infinitely cool (at least to me who is not a guitarist but
> plays one on TV)
> is that you can tune the guitar like a zither........in other words,
> you can tune to 6 scalar
> notes (or your hearts content) and always be able to play harmonics in
> this scale whilst
> simultaneously playing leads as you strum or arpeggiate the harmonics.
>
> I set it up on my Fretless Strat tonight and just tuned my guitar to an
> interesting Arabic Maqam
> and then could alternate between playing bass lines on the lowest string
> (tonic) and melodies
> on all the other strings.
>
> Just goofing around with my M9 earlier tonight, I was able to use
> double and half speeds to create three octaves of harmonic parts
> and then solo over the resultant chimey 'soup' With all the harmonics
> singing, I was able to play my fretless guitar with my eyes closed,
> sliding in and out of consonance..........it's a really beautiful effect.
>
> My wife is amazing and I'm so happy that we had to wait to give each
> other Christmas months later than normal.
>
> Woohoooo!!!! I'm psyced!
>
> rick walker
>