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Best guitar capos: the tried & tested options we recommend for acoustic and electric players

If you have played guitar for more than five minutes, chances are someone has handed you a capo. Right after a guitar pick and a tuner, it is one of the first accessories most of us end up with. And if you're anything like me, you've probably bought (and lost) more guitar capos than you would like to admit. They seem to have a habit of vanishing into the void, only to reappear months later in a guitar case you haven’t used in ages.