[HANASHIR:3062] RE:

[Judah Cohen <jcohen...>]

> Thank God for the guy (person--I shouldn't 
> presume it was a "guy", eh?) who invented capos for guitars!! Now if they 
> only made one for the piano........

Believe it or not, there IS a "capo" for the piano (besides the
"transpose" button on a synthesizer).  While I can't rememberr it's name
(or if it even had a name), it was a special gadget made for Irving
Berlin.  Berlin, who couldn't read music, also had another musical
limitation:  he could only play in the key of F# Major (or D# minor).
This device would move the strings for him so he could play in a number of
diferent keys without having to change his fingering.  It would have made
my theory keyboard teacher blanch. . .

Judah.

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