One bowed lyre was the Welsh crwth, which by the 13th century had gained a fingerboard running from the crossbar to the soundbox. |
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The Irish name is related to crwth, the Welsh bowed lyre. |
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This word may originally have described a different stringed instrument, being etymologically related to the Welsh crwth. |
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He enjoyed music, including Welsh music and the newly invented crwth instrument, as well as musical organs. |
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For all its technical limitations, the crwth has great charm, and is much more than a historical curiosity. |
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The repertoire of surviving crwth tunes is very small, although many other traditional tunes can be adapted for the instrument and new tunes are being written for it. |
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W always represents a consonant except in combination with a vowel letter, as in growth, raw, and how, and in a few loanwords from Welsh, like crwth or cwm. |
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