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Description: | Crwth, bowed lyre, made from wood, iron, steel and ivory. The Welsh crwth consists of a square body with an arched support above it and a central fingerboard. This crwth has four fingered strings and two drone strings or bourdons. The playing of this instrument died out in the 19th century, but this is a replica made by Arnold Dolmetsch. Dolmetsch performed on instruments such as this during concerts that he gave in London to introduce listeners to the music and instruments of the past. At the 1934 Haslemere Festival, one concert included pieces for Celtic harp, played by Mabel Dolmetsch, and crwth played by Dolmetsch himself. These pieces were based on Dolmetsch's own deciphering of the Bardic Penllyn manuscript. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum, London | Subjects: | work | Temporal: | 1934 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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