> Regards,
> Leonard Williams

> From: Augusto de Ornellas Abreu <augusto.ornel...@gmail.com
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> Date: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [HG-new] Capo without capos…

> Some pictures might help us understand your capo design, Ruth!

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Ruth Bramley <r...@bramleyfamily.org.uk
> <mailto:r...@bramleyfamily.org.uk>> wrote:

>     Hi Arle

>     I regularly tune my trompette up to D, which is fine. I also have a
>     homemade capo that I occasionally put under the trompette if I want,
>     say, a G. This consists of a prism-shaped piece of wood with a small
>     notch cut into it. This sits on the soundboard, with the trompette
>     string in the notch, and acts as a nut/bridge. I can move it along
>     the soundboard to get the correct note.If you're not happy tuning
>     the trompette up to D, you could leave it at C, but put something
>     like this wooden block under to raise it to D.There's no reason why
>     you couldn't also make one to go under the gros bourdon to put it up
>     to A. I'd leave the petit bourdon off the wheel, and then on the
>     chanterelles play either a D or an A.

>     Hope that helps.

>     Cheers
>     Ruthie

>     On 16/11/2012 18:11, Arle Lommel wrote:
>>     Hi all,

>>     Got an unusual question. I have a C/G instrument but have been asked to provide a drone in D as part of an Advent processional as part of a program put on by my children’s school at the Berliner Dom in a few weeks. (I know, drone only is boring, but that is what they need.)

>>     The problem I face is that they need a rich drone sound in Ds and As, but there is no way I'm going to tune directly up (last time I tried I lost a drone string, and I can tell even going to C♯ that the tension is higher than I want to go).

>>     My instrument does not have drone capos. While I have thought of making some using harp levers and wooden supports under them, I've never gotten around to it. (I've also thought of nondestructively fitting a fret board under my drones with a clip-type capo, but that is a major project and I don't have the tools right now to do it.

>>     So the question is if any of you have any good suggestions for how to (a) easily and (b) cheaply raise the pitch of my drone strings. I don't want to restring for this event (nor do I want to buy new strings at the moment). I tried using clothes pins to grip the strings, but I find that they do not grip the strings firmly enough, so the results only work if I grip the clothes pin by hand and force it to shut harder. Not an ideal way to do it. So any ideas would be most welcome.

>>     Best,

>>     ARle

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