Johnny Elias plays Northern Jig by John Loughran, arrangement from Liz Carroll/John Doyle's album "In Play"

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www.danteferrara.co.uk Cittern medley: The Queen's delight Lady Neville's delight The King's bourée (John Playford 1666) from the CD Bazimakoo by Dante Ferrara Music Copyright Dante Ferrara 2007 Video Copyright Adam Verity 2007

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Joseph Sobol plays a jig and reel on a Sobell 10-string cittern: "Willie Coleman's" (jig) and "Over the Moor to Maggie" (reel). Recorded at ZoukFest, Taos, NM, June, 2001.

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see it in action at uk.youtube.com A short video of the electric cittern I've made, with me playing the Irish tune Star of Munster and having a bit of a noodle to give an idea of the instrument's range. I've had a Fylde cittern since about 2001, and though it's a very fine instrument, it's designed imho from a guitarist's perspective, rather than a cittern player's and is SO prone to feedback. So, the only option was to design one from the ground up. I thought about a semi solid, but abandoned that as too complex for a first build. I then thought about skeletal, like Violectra fiddles-again too complex as the string tension in a cittern is generally about 90kg. So, I settled on the final design, which draws some functional inspiration from the Parker Fly. It was a long haul that filled the house with sawdust, but I am really happy with it. The pickup combination of an undersaddle strip and a switchable single coil/humbucker, both EMG active units is incredible-any sound you could wish for and zero noise. I'm very pleased with its'playability-way easier than the Fylde-12" radius fingerboard, wide frets and shorter scale length of 578mm all help. And so, the next thing is to get on and make music with it :-) Footnote 1) I'm not an instrument maker, but a musician, and i'd probably need a lot of persuading to make one for someone else. If however you're embarking on building something similar for yourself, and would like any detailed info, just ask. Footnote 2) the bodhran <b>...</b>

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Wally Bell playing Madame Boneparte on a Docherty guitar bodied Cittern

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Scott is playing a Renaissance Cittern made in the North of England, by NW Brook. This instrument was popular during the Tudor and Jacobean eras with the aristocratic amateur, and was later used in Barber shops to pass the time waiting! The Cittern had a scary looking clown/jester's head carved on the end of the headstock. Shakespeare used it as an insult, "cittern head!" in Love's Labour's Lost! This instrument had it's own repertoire and could be used to accompany broadside ballad singing. Scott is playing dances by Anthony Holbourne and from the Matthew Holmes Mss. The Renaissance Cittern is not to be confused with modern folk instrument of the same name. Also guest staring: My knee!

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www.danteferrara.co.uk The Wager (William Ellis, 1652) from the CD Bazimakoo by Dante Ferrara Lyrics: My lady and her maid, upon a merry pin, They made a match at farting, who should the wager win. Joan lights three candles then, and sets them bolt upright. With the first fart she blew them out, with the next she gave them light. In comes my lady then, with all her might and mane, And blew them out and in and out and in and out again. Music Copyright Dante Ferrara 2007 Video Copyright Adam Verity

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A song I made up on the Fylde Cittern the week I got it. There are unison strings on the Cittern in this version.

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Two short pieces played on a reconstruction of a renaissance diatonic cittern made by Peter Forrester. "Baro Faustus Dreame" - an Elizabethan Ballad printed in Holland by Adrianus Valerius in his "Nederlandische Gedanken"(1626). "Slieve Russel" - An irish fiddle tune. www.pantagruel for more info

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This is a 10-string mid-scale (23") octave mandolin/bouzouki, which some also call a cittern. It was built by Lawrence Nyberg (www.guitarmaker.ca), a skilled and capable luthier from British Columbia, Canada. It features Amazon Rosewood (I say "redwood" in the clip but it's just because I'm nervous...that camera thing) back and sides, a gorgeous Engelmann spruce top, and some cool and elegant features. And the sound! I've only been playing since last August so I don't do it justice, but I hope to some day. It's tuned DGDAE and sounds even better in person. THANKS, Lawrence!

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Mark Wheeler plays examples from his workshop in the Spring 2010 Lute Society Of America Quarterly "Fitting the Shoemaker". "The Shoemaker" is a scottish fiddle tune that was popular in the 17th century. His arrangement is based on the surviving versions of the piece in the Guthrie Fiddle manuscript, John Playford's "Apollo's Banquet", Waterson Keyboard Manuscript and also includes the tunes "Peggie is over ye Sie Wi'ye Souldier" from the Skene Mandora manuscript & "The Virgin Queen" from John Playford's "The Dancing Master". The cittern was built by Peter Forrester. A recording of this piece is available on the Pantagruel CD "Laydie Louthians Lilte" available from www.pantagruel.de

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Three pieces from Bremner's Instructions for the Guitar, Edinburgh, 1758. The instrument was often called the guittar (correct spelling) or cetra, ie a cittern, and is often today called the English Guitar. Bremner published the first book for it, and he arranged many traditional pieces. The tuning from the bass to the treble is CEGceg, but I probably have it tuned a tone lower as that's where it seems to resonate best. It is strung with harpsichord strings - thanks to Grant O'Brien and Darryl Martin. More info and free scores: www.RMguitar.info

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Mark Wheeler plays "Dowlands First Galliard" by John Dowland on a reconstruction of a renaissance cittern by Peter Forrester. This version of the piece come from the Cambridge University Library manuscript Dd. 4.23

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I got a new Fylde Cittern a few days ago; 10 strings, count em! In this clip it's tuned GCGCG, but I've been using GDGDG too. Still getting to grips with them, they're very different to bouzouki tunings I'm more used to. I may change it to something like DADAD soon. Like the season finale of House, this was shot on a 5d MkII. Sadly, it's not as gripping.

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Description and demonstration of the cittern by Mark Cudek, director of the Early Music department at the Peabody Conservatory.

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Here's a lesson from fingerstyle cittern master Joseph Sobol on how to play an Irish jig with fingerstyle technique, incorporating melody, harmony, and Irish-style ornamentation, on a 10-string (5 course) instrument tuned GDGDG. Recorded at Zoukfest 2001 in Taos, New Mexico.

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A cittern was a fretted and wire strung medieval instrument which survived into the late baroque period before being replaced by the mandolin family. Rob MacKillop had some tabs for a 17th century 4 course cittern on his website, so I thought I'd try it out. Naturally, that means I'd have to buy or make a cittern. So I went back to Home Depot and picked up some wood. Italian tuning is b,g,d,e, but I think that's for a 14 inch scale length, and mine came out to be 18.5 inch with heavy mandola strings, so I rough tuned it down to about e,c,g,a by ear. The first bridge had too much buzz, so I made a second bridge which seems to be an improvement.

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"I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her" and "the Mooncoin". These were played on a 21" scale Sobell cittern. Tuning is GDAEA with a 4-course capo on the 5th, to make (G)GDAD. Thanks for watching. My CDs can be found here: www.mandolinarchive.com

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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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'Sumurun' is a piece inspired by a beautiful 94' yacht by the same name, built in 1914 in Fairlie, Ayrshire, Scotland. She has a pretty romantic history, too much to write here so please check out the website if interested: www.sumurun.com My bell cittern was made by outstanding luthier (and boatbuilder), Nikos Apollonio. The English oak used to make it was offcuts from that used to refurbish Sumurun. So, in a sense the same cut of wood has breathed life into boat and cittern alike. Perhaps this makes them sisters... or half sisters! It's a truly wonderful instrument; the oak is unusual and gives a massive and beautiful sustain that I've never heard on any stringed instrument of this size. Such a warm and rich tone, with a sumptuous Western red cedar top. I feel very priveledged to own something so precious. Thank you, Nikos. Special thanks to Armin Fischer for kindly permitting me to reproduce photographs of Sumurun for this video. Many thanks as well to Pascal Gademer 'SandBARhopper' and Naomi Sarasola http for so kindly allowing me to use both film footage of Sumurun and photographs in the fog. Particularly, thank you for getting these to me at such late notice and with break-neck speed, so that I may be able to upload in time still to dedicate this as a birthday present of sorts! Happy Birthday, Nikos! xxx

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Fingerstyle cittern master Joseph Sobol demonstrates techniques for playing an Irish reel with traditional ornamentation on a Sobell 10-string citttern.

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East Tennessee State University professor Joseph Sobol on cittern and Chapel Hill, NC accordionist/multi-instrumentalist David DiGiuseppe playing a short jig. Lovely stuff!

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Relaxing outside the studio (again) with a Path Hathway Cittern. English maker. All 'round nice chap. I used this Cittern on Above You on the album The Light - see www.viewutopia.com/music to hear the piece. The jam I'm playing here has some lyrics to it also - Shakespeare 'Jog on, Jog on' and a few lines about a lake (don't know where that came from in the subconscious! It might appear on an album before the end of the year.

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Playing medley of North Highland tunes from Patrick McDonald collection, arrangement from Bonnie Rideout's "Celtic Circles" album.

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Suit smiling Katie loves me (anon Scottish) and Cuckolds all in a row (Playford) performed on a Cittern (Christopher Stetson) by Mark Cudek

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It's the head-bopping/weird faces duo! A few tunes with my good friend Joseph Sobol, cittern player extraordinaire, in Jonesborough, Tennessee, Dec 08. The tunes are Maid of Mt. Cisco and The Skylark. A few mistakes on my part, but overall it seemed to come out well. Thanks to my brother Ezra (StagePerformer51 here on YouTube) for taking the video.

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www.danteferrara.co.uk Julia (Henry Purcell, c.1693) from the CD Bazimakoo by Dante Ferrara Lyrics: Once, twice, thrice I Julia tried. The scornful puss, as oft denied. And since I can no better thrive, I'll cringe to ne'er a bitch alive. So kiss my arse, disdainful sow, Good claret is my mistress now. Music Copyright Dante Ferrara 2007 Video Copyright Adam Verity 2007

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Hand made, custom built cittern by luthier, Gary Nava

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Pandit Harvinder Singh playing sitar with Anders Falk on cittern and Cecilia Aslund singing a swedish folklore. Live concert 5 Dec 2009.

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"The Cuckoo" played on a Christian Sandner Waldzither which has been modified to have a longer neck and 5 double courses. It is tuned GDAda.

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Filmed in Japan Yokota AB, Both tunes that he plays are original tunes. The cittern or cither is a stringed instrument of the guitar family dating from the Renaissance. Its name derives ultimately from the Iranian se - tar or "three strings" (see setar). Its flat-back design was simpler and cheaper to construct than the lute. It was also easier to play, smaller, less delicate and more portable. Played by all classes, the cittern was a premier instrument of casual music making much as is the guitar. The name "cittern" has also been applied in the late twentieth century to a number of variant members of the mandolin family, for which see below.

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Cittern improvisation on The Bach Cello Suite II - Courante with a piano accompaniment, extended but true to the changes Bach implied. We fondly call this "jazzCittern". The cittern, with its fifths tuning (CGDAE) is perfect for improvisation over jazz-like chord changes. (More info at www.jazzCittern.com) Think of New Standard Tuning on guitar as a cittern with a high G string added. Or a full-fifths tuned guitar as a cittern with a high B string added.

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A famous fiddle tune also named The Glasgow Reel. (Cittern tuning : GDAdg)

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In Germany there are many rare musical folk instruments. One of them is the Hamburger waldzither, a local kind of cittern in an open C tuning.

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I am trying out a newly finished cittern that I build for a customer. It has fanned fred with back and sides in Rosewood. Soundboard is Swiss alpine spruce and bindings flamed maple. Neck is made of mahogany and maple with a ebony fretboard.

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"My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing" played on a Christian Sandner waldzither that has been modified to have a longer neck and 5 double courses. It is tuned GDAda. I learned this tune from the Skye collection because the title amused me.

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