3 Irish Reels for fingerstyle cittern

Joseph Sobol plays 3 traditional Irish reels: "Johnny McGreevey's/The Broken Pledge/Traveler's Reel" on 10-string cittern. Recorded June 20, 2008 at Music On the Square, Jonesborough, Tennessee

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Music

Tags:

• Cittern
• Finger-picking
• Irish
• traditional

[caniloup]

Dear Mr. Sobol,

could you tell us please the exact scale length of your nice instrument? It's a Sobell, isn't it?

Thank you!

[Citternalia]

@caniloup Yes it's a Sobell 10-string from the 80s. This one is 615mm. without the capo, or about 24 & 3/16" in. But I've got it tuned to F and then capoed to G, so 2 frets shorter. That would be 550mm. or about 21 & 5/8"--quite a bit easier to handle.

[Markijoe65]

is the cittern the same as the Irish Bouzouki?

[Citternalia]

@Markijoe65 : Two kinds of difference--technical: 4-courses=bouzouki, 5- or 6-courses=cittern; also scale length of 25" or above= bouzouki, shorter=cittern. And cultural: makers who trace their cultural lineage back to Johnny Moynihan/Alec Finn and their importation of the Greek bouzouki to Ireland in the 60s will call their instruments bouzoukis; builders who trace their inspiration to Stefan Sobell and his revival of the English/Scottish cittern in the 70s will call theirs citterns.

[slimskinshin]

I never knew jack charlton played the cittern so well

[Markijoe65]

Thank you for your kind reply Citternalia I appreciate your time

[Markijoe65]

Thank you for your kind reply Citternalia

[jameswilson724]

wish i could play this!



[Francesco66216]

very very nice,gret sound of cittern..reggards Francesco da Italy

[odeamusic]

o.o  again!