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Capo: A capo (short for capotasto, from Italian, literally; 'head of fingerboard') is a movable bar attached to the fingerboard of a fretted instrument to uniformly raise the pitch of all the strings. There are several different styles of capo available, utilizing a range of mechanisms, but most use a rubber-covered bar to hold down the strings, fastened with a strip of elastic or nylon, a cam-operated metal clamp, or other device. The use of a capo is considered by some people to be a crutch for technically inferior players. While it can be used for this purpose (for example, allowing a novice guitarist to play chords in the relatively difficult key of Ab by playing the much simpler chord shapes for the key of G), it also facilitates making use of the instrument's natural qualities in certain keys and allows for the use of techniques and sounds that would otherwise be unavailable. Because of the different techniques and chord voicings available in different keys, the same piece may sound very different played in D or played in C with a capo at the 2nd fret (at the same actual pitch). Additionally, the timbre of the strings changes as the scale length is shortened, suggesting the sound pf other short-scaled stringed instruments such as the mandolin. Therefore the use of a capo is as much a matter of artistic expression as of technical expediency. The use of a capo also obviates the need to learn a song in several different keys if accompanying singers who sing at different pitches. For guitar playing, some styles such as flamenco and folk music make extensive use of the capo, while it is used very rarely if at all in other styles such as classical and jazz playing.

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Camber	Canned Music (Slang)	Canon
Cans	Cantilever	Cantus Firmus
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Clearwood	Clef	Click and Hold
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Combo Organ	Comb String Converter	Commission
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Convolution	Cool	Copy
Copyleft	Copyright	Coral Sitar
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CPU	CPUCycle	Crash
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Cross Stick Crosstalk	Cross Switch	Crosstalk
Crotchet	CRT	CRV
CS-80	Csound	CS Update
Cue	Cue List (Cue Sheet)	Current
Current Limiting	Cursor	Cut
Cut-Only Equalizer	Cutaway	Cutoff Frequency