Flying!

**Simon DS** · Apr-13-2021, 5:59am

Anyone got any other vids where the music takes off?

**Rob Roy** · Apr-13-2021, 8:27am

Flawless playing Simon! I'm impressed with how you can keep the drones going through all those triplets. Is that an old Sobel cittern?

**journeybear** · Apr-13-2021, 10:07am

It appears thou hast misconstrued, sir. 'Tis not Simon, but Dagger, who's a-soarin' on the cittern.

**catmandu2** · Apr-13-2021, 11:40am

Originally Posted by Rob Roy

Is that an old Sobel cittern?

Appears to be 10-str mndln

**Dave Hanson** · Apr-14-2021, 1:12am

It's a Sobell 10 string mandolin.

Dave H

**John Kelly** · Apr-14-2021, 3:49am

The video is indeed of David A Gordon, one of Scotland's top mandolin players. He has had the 5-course Sobell for a long time and you will see it is fitted with a Mike Vanden (later to become Fishman) pickup. As far as I remember Mike had his workshop up in the north of Scotland at the time. I was lucky enough to try Dagger's mandolin at a kitchen session in Kevin Macleod's home in Achiltibuie a few years back during the Summer Isles Festival, an evening to remember.