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The story of the violin, 1904
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1First Bowed Instruments in Europe
3The crotta here referred to is supposed to be the ancestral Welsh crwth, and the word "canat" to imply that it was an instrument capable of producing a "singing tone," or, in other words, an instrument played with a bow. In opposition stand the opinions of Carl Engel, the late eminent musical antiquarian and scholar, and others, who see in the original Welsh crwth not a bowed instrument at all, but simply one closely resembling the small Greek lyre, the strings of which were twanged, and to which in course of time, when foreigners had acquainted the Welsh players with the fiddle-bow, the latter was applied. In consequence, the instrument assumed some features agreeable to the use of the new contrivance while still on the whole the earlier form was retained. Thus, on the crwth of the eighteenth century—of which alone we possess illustrations representing the instrument in its last improved stage—are yet found
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