Word: crwth
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...recorder was antique even in Shakespeare's time. Although in England and Germany the recorder never quite became extinct, elsewhere it became a museum piece like the crwth (a type of Welsh fiddle), the nose flute, the theorbo. Five years ago, when a man asked for a recorder at G. Schirmer, Inc., Manhattan's big music store, he drew blank. Last week Schirmer's had a window full of recorders. Even during the dull summer months, sales had gone...
Last week the crwth, the virginal, the rebec, the fipple, the lute, the dulcimer, the zither and many another old and forgotten instrument was to be heard in the little Surrey town of Haslemere where 76-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch was giving the tenth annual Haslemere Festival of Ancient Music...
When William the Conqueror was fighting the Battle of Hastings (1066) bearded bards in Wales were taking crwth (pronounced crowd) in hand, sawing a short bow over its strings, singing verses. When Henry VIII was dangling Anne Boleyn on his knees, he often called for his favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back...