The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 268
and Scotch bards,* was * The Welsh or Scotch Crwd.— [Tk.] MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 2I7 composed of an oblong sounding-box, more or less Hollowed out at the twosides, with a handle fixed in the body of the instrument, in which weremade two openings that allowed the performer to hold it by the lefthand… … Fig. 193.—Three-stringed Crout of the Ninth Century. From a Miniature. played on it with a straight or convex bow, provided with a single threadeither of iron wire or of twisted hair. Except in England, where the croutwas national, it did not last beyond the eleventh century. It was replacedby the…
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