What happens when you put a capo on a diatonic instrument? The weirdest thing I had to get used to when learning to play the Appalachian dulcimer was the fret spacing, which is different than on a guitar. Which means... That capo will not do what you think it will lol While there are chromatic dulcimers (saving up for this rn), most dulcimers you come across will have diatonic fretboard spacing. This means that instead of a chromatic scale going up the fretboard, you've got a *diatonic* scale (a