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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
capo1
 
SYLLABICATION:ca·po
PRONUNCIATION:  kp
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. ca·pos
A small movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar or similar instrument so as to raise the pitch of all the strings uniformly.
ETYMOLOGY:Italian capo (di tastiera), head (of the fingerboard), from Latin caput. See kaput- in Appendix I.
 
 
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