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What is a crwth?

What is a crwth? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.
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The instrument is well known to this day in Wales as the crwth.
The crwth, crowd, crouth did not undergo this third transition even when the bow was used to set the strings in vibration.
The crwth presents still more troublesome questions, which we must admit are still less hopeful of solution.
He enjoyed music, including Welsh music and the newly invented crwth instrument, as well as musical organs.
One bowed lyre was the Welsh crwth, which by the 13th century had gained a fingerboard running from the crossbar to the soundbox.
This instrument became the crwth, and there was no further development.

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