crwth
Sign in to saveAlso known as crotta, crowd, rote
See Rotte for the psaltery, or Rotte for the plucked lyre.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Crwth
- Instrument.image
- Crwth-in-case.jpg
- Instrument.classification
- Bowed string instrument
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Origin of the name
- History
- Physical description and playing technique
- Welsh legends
- Today
- See also
- References
- External links
See Rotte for the psaltery, or Rotte for the plucked lyre.
The crwth ( , ), also called a crowd or rote or crotta, is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, now archaic but once widely played in Europe. Four historical examples have survived and are to be found in St Fagans National Museum of History (Cardiff); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US).
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