Guitar players are the latest to benefit from a technology most often applied in small OEM clutch applications. The G7th Performance Guitar Capo, designed around a wrap spring clutch from Reell Precision Mfg., has transformed a Medieval-looking guitar accessory into a sleek, high-tech, 21st century apparatus. Guitarists worldwide are playing up the benefits. A capo simplifies guitar playing by allowing a guitarist to change key without changing chord fingering. Essentially a clamp, a capo compresses the strings when placed at a given fret on the neck of a guitar. This changes the pitch or key. Guitarists will recognize that playing in the key of E-flat can be difficult to finger. They can play in D, an easier key, by placing the capo on the first fret. Even though they are playing a D chord progression, they are actually playing in the key of E-flat.
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