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 ARCHIVED TOPIC: Been working on playing out of A without a capo


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g3zdm - Posted - 09/16/2014:  11:07:19


OK, you fooled me ...



But I managed to play along (and find the melody) on banjo without a capo; becomes a necessity in some celtic sets where 1 or 3 out of a 3-tune set are in A and the other(s) in D or G.



 A bit hard to get your piano to a gig though smiley



Chris Muriel, Manchester, UK


Andyincov - Posted - 09/16/2014:  11:09:54


quote:

Originally posted by g3zdm

OK, you fooled me ...




But I managed to play along (and find the melody) on banjo without a capo; becomes a necessity in some celtic sets where 1 or 3 out of a 3-tune set are in A and the other(s) in D or G.




 A bit hard to get your piano to a gig though smiley




Chris Muriel, Manchester, UK




 







hahaha - well done you though - that's difficult!! I guess that's what i was getting at. Yeah, the old piano is not very portable to be sure :-)


Marc Nerenberg - Posted - 09/16/2014:  11:41:48


I read somewhere that Irving Berlin, who only played in one key, had a piano made for him with a built in piano capo of sorts. The whole keyboard could be cranked over to move it from one key to another. I don't suppose he used it to change keys in the middle of a song though.


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