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Definition of Crwths
1. crwth [n] - See also: crwth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crwths
Literary usage of Crwths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"... gigues, crwths, lyres, lutes, mandolins, like a vertical section of a pear.
There was an ancient stringed instrument with a shallow sound-chest, ..."
2. Music (1893)
"... but later, after the introduction of the bow, some of the crwths were supplied
with bridges, one foot of which passed through the sound hole to the ..."
3. The Heart of Music: The Story of the Violin by Anna Alice Chapin (1906)
"Crowden, of course, means fiddlers, — the players of crowds or crwths. Religion was
of course pantheistic, as with all barbaric races. ..."
4. The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion by Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1908)
"... years of the eighteenth century, Bingley devoted some attention to Welsh music.
He has an interesting description of one of the last of the crwths, ..."
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