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Added 10 October 2026

capotasto

noun

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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

Origin

From Italian capotasto, from capo (“head”) + tasto (“fret”).

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