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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1inventions of C. Sax, père, appearing in 1824. Instead of using crooks to change to the various keys, a graduated slide added or detached certain lengths of the tubing. A separate elbow of tubing bore a movable register, which the player could place upon a number representing the key in which he wished to play, and the correct length of tubing was immediately brought into connection with the mouth-piece.
3CROMHORN — See krumhorn.
4CROWD — See crwth.
5CRUIT — Gallic term for violin or harp. Same as crwth or crowd, which see.
7CRWTH, CROWD, CHROTTA — Bowed Strings. England. The oldest form of bowed instrument known in England. It was shaped a little like a lyre, having an extension in hoop form of the square sound box. In the center of the top of the hoop were the pegs. Through the center ran an unfretted finger-board, and over this were generally stretched four of the five or six strings, the others being just beside it and plucked by the right thumb. The sound holes were round. These instruments were very ancient, dating to four hundred years before Christ and were first mentioned about 609 A. D. by Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers. Crwth is the Welsh name, and crowd the English. The left foot of the bridge passes through one sound hole, and rests upon the back of the sound-board, fulfilling much the same duty as the sound-post on a violin. It is, in fact, an ancestor of the violin, and doubtless a descendant of the Irish cruit, which was plucked by the fingers, and which is claimed to have been mentioned by an Irish poet before the time of Christ.
9CUCKOO — Vertical Flute. Europe. Two small pipes bound together and giving two notes resembling the call of the cuckoo.
11CYMBALS — Sonorous Substances. Europe. Cylindrical plates of brass or bronze, thinner at the outer edge. They vary from the finger cymbals, an inch in diameter, to
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