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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. music A device, placed across the strings of a fretted instrument such as a guitar, to shorten the strings and thus allow upward transposition without altered fingering
Etymologies
- Italian capo + tasto head of the fret (Wiktionary)
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
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reesetee See capodastre. From Italian capo di tasto, "head of the fingerboard." Nov 3, 2008