The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 266
, and Scotch bards,* was * The Welsh or Scotch Crud.— [TR.] MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 217 composed of an oblong sounding-box, more or less hollowed out at tbe 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 Croat 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 croidwas national, it did not last beyond the eleventh century. It was replacedby the…
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