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- Italian · borrowed fromcapotasto
- English todaycapotasto
From Italian capotasto, from capo (“head”) + tasto (“fret”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
capotasto
Today it means: A device, placed across the strings of a fretted instrument such as a guitar, to shorten the strings and thus allow upward transposition without altered fingering Full definition →
Italian capotasto