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The crwth ( or ), also called a crowd or rote, is an archaic stringed instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, once widely played in Europe. Four examples have survived and are to be found in St Fagans National History Museum Cardiff, National Museum Wales Aberystwyth, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ==Origin of the name== The name ''crwth'' is originally a Welsh word, derived from a Proto-Celtic noun '' *krotto-'' ("round object"〔() Matasovic: Etymological lexicon of Proto-Celtic〕) which refers to a swelling or bulging out, a pregnant appearance or a protuberance, and it is speculated that it came to be used for the instrument because of its bulging shape. Other Celtic words for violin also have meanings referring to rounded appearances. In Gaelic, for example, "cruit" can mean "hump" or "hunch" as well as harp or violin.〔() Classic Encyclopedia entry of 1911 for Crowd (crwth)〕 Like several other English loanwords from Welsh, the name is one of the few words in the English language in which the letter W is used as a vowel. The traditional English name is crowd (or rote), and the variants ''crwd'', ''crout'' and ''crouth'' are little-used today. In Medieval Latin it is called the ''chorus'' or ''crotta''. The Welsh word ''crythor'' means a performer on the crwth. The Irish word is ''cruit'', although it also was used on occasion to designate certain small harps. The English surnames Crewther, Crowder, Crother and Crowther denote a player of the crowd, as do the Scottish names MacWhirter and MacWhorter. In this article ''crwth'' denotes the modern, or most recent, form of the instrument (see picture). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crwth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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