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The crwth (/kruːθ/ KROOTH, Welsh: [kruːθ]), 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).[1][2][3]
- ^ "A new discovery within an old instrument: was the Welsh crwth unique in possessing two soundboxes?". St Fagans: National History Museum website. National Museum Wales. 2 April 2012. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ "Museum website". Bought in 1843 by Dr James Kendrick. Warrington Museum & Art Gallery. 2 April 2012. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ "Museum website". Owain Tudur's crwth, Dolgellau (19th century); Francis W. Galpin (1858–1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Francis W. Galpin to William Lindsey (1858–1922), Boston, Massachusetts; 1916, gift of William Lindsey, in memory of his daughter, Leslie Lindsey Mason, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2013.