Welsh Crwth

I cannot play the crwth(I must first state this as I could set back the Crwth revival by 20 years!! If you want to see/hear how it should be played see www.bradgod.com or google Cass meurig!!) I played this for a few minutes before packing it off for a customer. I only had a simple Psaltery bow on hand which isn't really the best way to showcase this instrument either!! But I felt a few people would be interested and may be motivated into exploring this instrument further. Its a copy of the Richard Evans Welsh Crwth of 1742. The original is carved from a single plank with a separate soundboard, but mine has a body built-up like a violin.

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Music

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• Welsh
• Crwth
• Lyre
• Harp
• Bard
• Luthier

[EmreDeMara]

wich tuning you have on it?

[michaeljking]

@EmreDeMara traditional tuning g G cCDd it allows chords and melodies in the 1st position single and double fingering

[Uuuurk]

could u tune one in gdae? the upper two strings r drones huh?

[michaeljking]

@Uuuurk The fingerboard is flat so it would be quite useless in this tuning, the reverse neck angle on the crwth would make arched fingerboard unable to play as the crth has no waisted area for the bow. The Crwth plays a very limited range intentionally. Now you could make a violin with drone strings, this was done in the renaissance with the lira de braccio,

[hannahcarol13]

This is not a crwth. A crwth has 3 strings and does not use a bow. This is a crwth-trithant which has 6 strings and a bow. It was a spin off of the crwth so the common people could play it. you should correct the title to Crwth-Trithant.

[michaeljking]

Sorry, but that is incorrect, The reverse is true in actual fact, the 3 stringed crwth was the one called the Crwth-Trithant, not the 6 string model which was the preferrred bardic instrument, the 3 string was considered inferior. Whether the Crwth proper descended from the 3 string Crwth trithant is open to debate.

(see Groves music disctionary/Musical instruments by engel)

[jake77713]

Lol i looked this up because someone told me this was the only word without vowels

[CandyMountainCrack]

who came from #OMG facts?

[shipmodels1]

You say you cannot play. There's a couple of recent postings under "crwth" featuring Dr. J. Marshall Bevil. Check them out. He has some articles on line as well.

[jeppestrale]

Great job in all of your instruments! It's a shame to have people just argue about spellings and such. I deeply appreciate your work.

[inspectorcal]

@hannahcarol13 the clue is in the name,,crwth-TRIthant. tri meaning three.

[Blacksquareable]

Aw! Don't be so hard on yourself!

[LloSnD1]

The Welsh alphabet is significantly different to the English alphabet. W and y are vowels in Welsh so if you know the Welsh alphabet it's actually very easy to pronounce as the w is equivalent to oo . oh and one last thing Welsh is the British language . Great instrument by the way

[msLobinaa]

@DiegoElArbol ...-bows down-

[TheTOXICmahem]

OMG-FACTS!!!!

[xDAZZE]

Rhythms doesn't have a vowel. If you count the y, then the w here is technically a vowel.

[FluzzVlowtjYT]

Don't like it its uncorrect becuz The notes you play is incorrect.

No i am kidding ;)

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