crwth

Also known as crotta, crowd, rote

See Rotte for the psaltery, or Rotte for the plucked lyre.

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Instrument.name: Crwth
Instrument.image: Crwth-in-case.jpg
Instrument.classification: Bowed string instrument

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Commons category: Crwth
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 321.22

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Origin of the name
History
Physical description and playing technique
Welsh legends
Today
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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).