G7th Capo Company

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G7th The Capo Company Ltd
Limited
Industry Guitar Capos
Founded 2004 in Peterborough, England by Nick Campling
Headquarters London Road, Leicester, UK
Key people
Nick Campling, Noel Sheehan
Products Guitar Capos
Website www.g7th.com

G7th Ltd of Leicester, England, is a manufacturer of guitar capos.

The first G7th "Performance" capo was launched in April 2004. The capos have won numerous awards for the design of the capo (Design Week), Players' Award (Acoustic Guitar mag) and many other accolades. In 2009, the Company won the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise and the founders were invited to Buckingham Palace, London, to meet the Queen.

The "Performance 2" capo was launched in 2014 to excellent reviews,[1] and went on to win the 2014 Player's Choice Award for capos in Acoustic Guitar (magazine),[2] the third win in a row for G7th.

The G7th "Performance" capo which uses a wrap spring clutch

G7th capos are used by many professional musicians including Richard Thompson, Bryan Adams, The Kooks, KT Tunstall, Marcus Mumford, Roger McGuinn, Catfish and the Bottlemen. Blues musician Eric Clapton, used one on his DVD "Sessions for Robert Johnson".

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