The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 286
, and Scotch bards,* was * The Welsh or Scotch Cried.—[Tr.] MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 217 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 Croui 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 crontwas national, it did not last beyond the eleventh century. It was replacedby the…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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