Partial capos anyone?

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Armistice

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Hi...

Wondering if any of you have come across the "third hand capo"... and if so, how you use it?

I got one a while back and have used it with some fairly basic things such as Esus and A over standard tuning, but gone no further with it...

If anyone has any ideas that aren't on the accompanying brochure I'd love to hear them...

If you're wondering what I'm talking about http://www.thirdhandcapo.com/

An interesting device - nice idea, but not particularly well engineered..

Cheers
 
Since you've got one, you've probably already figured out it's a pain to set up. You're best bet with that sort of thing is to put on a second guitar devoted to it. That way you can spend your time learning to how to really get some cool sounds out of it without have to hassle with it in between times.

That's just my personal take on stuff like that. I bet you could even come up with your own personal sound if you used it all the time. Try doing an open tuning (open G or whatever) and then putting it on there in some extreme position (5 fret or above) with just a couple of strings capo'd.

The big question I have... Does it work? So some strings ring open and others are capo'd?
 
Shubb also makes a short capo that can be used that way. Haven't used one myself, but I have seen and heard them used to great effect.
 
Fusioninspace said:
The big question I have... Does it work? So some strings ring open and others are capo'd?
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It's not difficult to set up at all, takes a few seconds and yes, it works.

The problem I have with it is that it's an "old style" capo where the pressure is applied via elasticised bands, and I think those bands are very quickly going to lose their stretch at least a little... can't think why someone who came up with the concept would build it in such a half-arsed way...

I've been using it on a standard tuning with another capo behind it... so it's up around the 4th or fifth fret with a standard capo across the 2nd or 3rd... it's quite cool, but I'm finding I can really only come up with one interesting sequence per position...
 
If you take the standard Kyser capo, turn if around backwards on the 2nd fret, you have the same thing in a flash. It makes contact with the A, D, and G strings only, leaving E, B, and E open. Pretty cool.
 
I have a 3rd hand capo. Pretty cool. I do a lot of open and alternate tuning things so I don't use it a lot. But what's cool is you can get open/alternate tuning effects and have standard tuning fretted notes.

A couple of names that use it a lot are fingerstyle master Chris Proctor and Harvey Reid.
 
Yeah, I've a homemade partial capo that covers the B and E strings. I tune my guitar to DADF#BE, and then place the partial capo on the 10th fret, which gives me DADF#AD. Essentially, it's open D with the high A and D strings sounding an octave higher than usual. Fun tuning, especially for drones, etc.
 
32-20-Blues said:
Yeah, I've a homemade partial capo that covers the B and E strings. I tune my guitar to DADF#BE, and then place the partial capo on the 10th fret, which gives me DADF#AD. Essentially, it's open D with the high A and D strings sounding an octave higher than usual. Fun tuning, especially for drones, etc.
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Clever. Sort of a basackward Nashville tuning.
 
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