Until Thalia came along, the capo was a very plain-looking tool to fret strings on a guitar and shift the pitch around.
For a decade now, Thalia Capos have been matching our style to a utility piece like the capo. The father-daughter team at Thalia strive to provide guitarists the chance to express themselves a little, or to augment the beautiful inlays, rosettes or wood choices with an equally beautiful capo.
Born from an idea from inventor and guitar player Chris’ daughter Thalia, Chris went on to redesign the capo, as well as add the aesthetic design principles and additions that Thalia wanted. Applying the right pressure to a guitar’s strings is incredibly important, and some 70 prototypes later, Chris had built a capo design to work with the radius of your guitar’s fretboard for more even tension across all strings.
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While the brand has since expanded into more boutique products like picks, straps and accessories, the spirit remains the same. Thalia Capos make solutions to musical problems that are as beautiful as the music we use them to make. There’s a few new products we’re really excited about!
The Tennessee Whiskey Wing Capo is Thalia’s own design for easy fretting and removal, all intended to be done with your fretting hand. Inlaid is a beautiful “Tennessee Whiskey” inlay, with different coloured metal options for you to match to your guitar’s hardware, or offset it!
The Whiskey Wing is just one part of the expansive Exotic Series of capos, tying together exotic shells and woods for some of the most eye-catching capos available. Choose from finishes like abalone and shell!
After something a little more refined and subtle? The Exotic range extends to woods as well, with Thalia’s world-class capos available with Rosewood, Hawaiian Koa and more all available to match the beautiful woods used for your guitar itself.
The Deluxe Series of capos are where things get really special, with custom designs like the Moon Phases on Pearl e or Hawaiian Koa Celtic Knot designs. Constructed with pearl, the Moon Phases design shines and sparkles through the phases of the moon across the width of the capo itself. A subtle design, but a classy and awe-inspiring one.
The Celtic Cross, while a bit more traditional, uses the grain of the beautiful Hawaiian Koa to make for a dynamic and familiar design, with warm tones throughout the wood complementing your choice of metal finish.
Looking for something even more special? The Deluxe series of capos might be the choice, with deluxe woodwork and design, these capos, aesthetically, are really something special. Thalia’s ‘Save The Bees’ design again harness the beautiful curly grain of Hawaiian Koa for a subtle, honeycomb inspired-design, complete with a little bee design and a commitment from Thalia Capos to help fund research by Washington State University, looking to understand how important the bees are to our environment and ecosystem of flora and fauna. The Save The Bees design is also available in a Vintage Pearl finish.
Beyond capos, Thalia Capos also provide solutions to plectrums, and some beautifully designed guitar straps. Made from imported leather and built to be 2.5” wide, a comfortable width and size, the Thalia Guitar Strap Collection features familiar materials like pearl to add some flair to your straps, with options like a Pearl Cross, Vintage Pearl Bee, Pearl Stargazer and more! Thalia’s straps are also compatible with their Pick Pucks. What’s a Pick Puck? Well …
The Thalia Pick Puck is another design built from the mind of a player and guitar lover. The Pick Puck is a small, circular puck-shaped pick holder. Where this gets interesting is that they can be stuck onto just about anything safely, like your guitar! Thalia’s proprietary GuitarSafe™ Micro-Suction Pads are modelled after a gecko’s foot, and allow the Pick Puck to be stuck to fragile or sensitive surfaces, like your guitar’s finish, with the strength to stay put, as well as being close enough for you to grab a pick at any point during a gig! Super handy for fingers pickers who need a pick handy for a different sound, or vice versa, and the Pick Puck will hold picks of varying thicknesses and retains a low profile design to stay out of the way. Multiple designs are available, again, to suit your own style!
Thalia Capos are a company built on the back of innovating designs that we, as guitar players, have accepted for a long time. Beautiful designs aside, the Thalia Capos range functions exceptionally well, made to be as easy to place or remove from your guitar, all the while looking better than the traditional powder coated metal we’ve accepted in the past! A subtle addition like pearl inlays or wood engraving can add a little sparkle to your already beautiful guitar, the capos functioning exceptionally well all the while. Choose from multiple ranges depending on the level of bling you’re after!
There’s more than just capos available though, with the innovative Pick Puck to keep the gig moving, as well as some beautifully crafted and high quality guitar straps as well. Thalia Capos provide well designed products to guitar players, all the while looking great while doing it.
For local Thalia Capos enquiries, visit EGM Distribution.
