Crwth 

Joshua Gasparac thanks for the kind comments! Please feel free to share 🙂

I was thinking just the same. Thanks for sharing! Amazing document.

True, and still!

Wrong

The English version is known as the crowd.

Crwth is a Cymru/Welsh name for it, it would not be anything else

@@mjl1958 Thank god the Welsh orthography's the one that's stuck though, right?

@@ealing456 The English surname, Crowther and Crowder comes from ancestors that played the Crowd. As does the Scottish surnames McWhirter and McWhorter.

@@johnbrereton5229 Indeed. Great names all the same - didn't know about the Scottish ones. My point was just that it's fantastic to have a Welsh spelling being the standard English usage.

El Peppe thanks for watching!

Where are you getting it from?

@@samsmith6594 From Michael J. King (Luthier)

How do you like it now that you've had it for a while?

@@allegoricalstatueThe suspense is killing me!

It's a sound from another time, right!

Paul Goeren thank you for watching!!

They seem to be a pretty rare find!

Thank you for watching! :)

find a luthier to make you one localy

Lark in the Morning sells them.

I'm in Chicago and I make crwths. A person I had made a crwth for went to Wales and met Cass Meurig. Seems my crwth was satisfactory. You can find me on Etsy, Glennsshipmodelsetc. I make two sizes. Ms Meurig here is playing the larger alto size.

@@glennbraun3908is “Glenn’s early music etc” the new name for your Etsy page?

Actually the tune in the middle at 5.50 is Ambell i Gan. There's a version with lyrics, but no crwth, here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Npf7P43QDEM.html. The tune at the end is Min Mair

@@NigelBond66 Thanks!

Maximilian Behrens haha, maybe that should be the next series. Despacito covers around the world

Me too

YES! Its on my list! I managed to interview a Cavaquinho player in Brazil, but I need more time around South America to hunt up those amazing instruments.

Woah I didn't realise that history! Interesting!

The surname “Crowther” brought me here too!

Oh shit you're right! My last name is also based on this instrument. In Scott Gaelic is basically means "Son of the Chruiter."

Haha, it would be a good one!

I'm no Scrabble expert, but if you can use the word "piano", why not "crwth"?

Used it myself in a game so yes haha

Thanks! I'll try it on my Kindle, if I can.

@@mosart7025 when we play the physical version, we tend to have the Oxford English Dictionary to hand. Which built-in dictionary does the Kindle app use, I wonder?

The Crwth is indigenous to Britain there are other bowed lyres around Northern Europe (Talharpa, Gue) that are of the same box style. We don’t find bowed box lyres in anywhere south of Northern Europe other than one ancient depiction from Egypt of that boxy lyre which is almost certainly just a coincidence.

I'm not so sure that'd work because of the fingering. I believe she said she's tuned eEAABB, but also tunes dDAABB from what I understood.

Ee aABb

can be a vowel or consonant in Welsh, just like can be a consonant or a vowel in English.

Listen to Cass's album (2003). There's a few upbeat tunes like Dydd Calan and Llawenydd. Overall, I've found that Welsh folk music from the middle ages had a quality of melancholy to it. The crwth and the pibau, even the harp are often played to that aspect. Perhaps that's a anachronistic reading, but for me it sets Wales's folk music apart from other Celtic nations (though Brittany's folk tradition is similarly 'drone-like').

Each unto their own. I think it sounds beautiful.

It is in Welsh, and the crwth (pronounced 'crooth') is a Welsh instrument of great antiquity.

@@marchellabrahams I know, it was just a joke

@@swagrobloxgamer1531 My apologies.

@@swagrobloxgamer1531 I thought jokes were meant to be amusing?

@@ealing456 Not everyone has the same humor