As the bridge of the crwth was nearly flat, the adjacent strings were octaves, or related in such a way that when sounding together chords were produced.
Very early we find the crwth in the hands of the Celtic players, as noticed in chapter VI.
On the seal of Roger Wade (1316) is a crwth differing but little from the specimen in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Sir John Hawkins[3] relates that in his time there was still a Welshman living in Anglesea who understood how to play the crwth according to traditional usage.
The earliest representation of the crwth yet discovered dates from the Carolingian period.
The bow is not mentioned by Fortunatus, and there is no ground whatever for believing that the Welsh crwth was played with a bow in the 6th century, or indeed for several centuries after.
The crwth here figured was made last century by Owain Tyddwr of Dolgelly, an old man who remembered the instrument as it was in his younger days, and took great pleasure in its reconstruction.
And from the same century we find a miniature representation of a Crwth player with a bow slightly more distinctive in character (Fig.
Was I really to accept as true this fantastic superstition about the crwth and the spirits of Snowdon and the 'living mullo'?
At last there came clearly from her crwth the wild air I had already heard on Snowdon.
You remember that mornin' when my crwth and song called Winnie to us at this very llyn?
Then without saying another word Sinfi took up her crwth and moved towards the llyn.
My crwthand song will rouse every spirit on the hills.
De Welch fok ses as de livin mullos only follow the crwth on Snowdon wen it is playde by a Welch Chavi, but dat is all a lie.
This proposal met my wishes entirely, and under the pretence of going to look at something on the Carnarvon road we managed to escape from the party, Sinfi still carrying her crwth and bow.
It's only when the crwthis played by a maid on the hills that the spirits can follow it.
Heard among the peaks of Snowdon, as I heard them during our search for Winifred, the notes of the crwth have a wonderful wildness and pathos.
And as she spoke she began to play her crwth pizzicato and to sing the opening bars of the old Welsh incantation which I had heard on Snowdon on that never-to-be-forgotten morning.
What you told me about the spirits following the crwth was causing the strangest dream,' I answered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crwth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
