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,
Polyphony and monophony in instruments (however, the keyboard instruments can have other effects considered non-producible by neither guitar or violin). Both of these can be seen in many music by Niccolò Paganini. Some non-mainstream classical instruments include strings which are fretted and plucked like those on a guitar, plus secondary strings which resonate and provide reverberation on a few key notes. When playing a single note, it is technically not polyphony, but it can be used to simulate polyphony. However, when playing multiple notes, it is physically polyphony. The electric guitar, just like the classical guitar, is polyphonic, as are various guitar derivatives (including the