Capo Capo A capo (short for "capodastro", "capo tasto" or "capotasto" , Italian for "head of fretboard"; Spanish: " cejilla" or "capodastro"; French: "capodastre"; German: "Kapodaster"; Portuguese: "capodastro", Serbo-Croatian: "kapodaster"; Greek: "kapotasta") is a device used on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument to shorten the playable length of the strings, hence raising the pitch. It is a common tool for players of guitars, mandolins, mandolas, banjos, ukuleles and bouzoukis. The word derives from the Italian "capotasto" which means the nut of a stringed instrument. The earliest known use of the term "capotasto" is by Giovanni Battista Doni who,
The Word and the Flesh rock music, even the same noise-rock. "The Word and the Flesh" sounds as if the listener's head had been squashed in the middle amplifier, so to speak." The album was released in mid-September 1991 by Restless Records in the United States, and by Rough Trade Records in Germany. The album cover, photographed by Geoffrey Notkin, features Poss' red SC-1 guitar, manufactured by G&L Musical Instruments. His other guitars of the same model had featured on other album sleeves by the band, and in 2009 Poss said that "the metonymic significance of my SC-1 reached its zenith when the guitar was