At age fourteen I took up the guitar, inspired by the playing of Merle Travis. At fifteen, a recording of Earl Scruggs hit me like a thunderbolt, and I switched to banjo. During my 20s and 30s I was among only a handful of stalwarts scratching out a living playing bluegrass on the West Coast. I imagined that would continue to be the direction my life would take; playing and teaching music combined with some work in graphic arts, for which I've always had a knack.One night at a banjo lesson, I described an idea I had for a fifth string capo to my student, an auto mechanic named Dave Coontz.
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The Shubb Capo company began in California in 1974, when Dave Coontz and I collaborated to design and produce a new fifth string capo for banjo. Before that, I worked as a professional 5-string banjo player and teacher, and Dave was an auto mechanic and a banjo student of mine. One night at his lesson, I was talking about my dissatisfaction with existing methods of capoing the fifth string.
We are an old-fashioned company, in that we believe our products should last a very long time, and that our customers should be totally satisfied. We very seldom hear of any problems with any of our products. But on those rare occasions when we do, we're here to help. More about our guarantee. Need a replacement capo sleeve or delrin cap?
We love being in the music business, and the part we love best is the music and the musicians. Yes, we attend to business; it keeps bread on the table, and a fire burning in the hearth. We never forget that. But the fire that burns by itself is our passion for music. We're musicians, and the players are our people.
They are uniquely engineered to duplicate the resilience of your fingertip and the closing action of your hand. No other capo design employs these features. We've tried for years to get music stores to stock replacement sleeves and caps for our capos, but somehow it doesn't always seem to happen. If someone in a store tells you that they are not available, please inform them that they are.
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