The Welsh crwth was therefore obviously not an exclusively Welsh instrument, but only a late 18th-century survival in Wales of an archaic instrument once generally popular in Europe but long obsolete. An interesting article on the subject in German by J. F. W. Wewertem will be found in Monatshefte für Musik (Berlin, 1881), Nos. 7-12, p. 151, &c.
(K. S.)
[1] See Early History of the Violin Family (London, 1883), pp. 24-36.
[2] See A Tour round North Wales (London, 1804), vol. ii. p. 332.
[3] History of Music (London, 1766), vol. ii. bk. iii. ch. iii., description and illustration.
[4] Musical and Poetical Relicks of Welsh Bards (London, 1794), illustration of crwth, also reproduced by Carl Engel; see note above.
[5] Archaeologia, vol. iii. (London, 1775).
[6] Venantius Fortunatus, Poëmata, lib. vii. cap. 8, p. 245; see Migne’s Patrologia Sacra, vol. 88.
[7] Op. cit. chapters “Crwth,” “Chrotta,” “Rotta.”