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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2018
- Cass Meurig chats about the medieval bowed lyre from Wales, how it works, and how it is used today.
Find out more about Cass and her music at: www.cassmeurig.com
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Recorded: Bala, Wales, April 2018.
This channel is so well done it's criminal how few subs and views it has!
Joshua Gasparac thanks for the kind comments! Please feel free to share 🙂
I was thinking just the same. Thanks for sharing! Amazing document.
True, and still!
Wrong
Crwth Is a name that could only come from Wales... brilliant instrument and showcase as always, it sounds almost like a Anglo-Concertina
The English version is known as the crowd.
Crwth is a Cymru/Welsh name for it, it would not be anything else
@@mjl1958 Thank god the Welsh orthography's the one that's stuck though, right?
@@ealing456
The English surname, Crowther and Crowder comes from ancestors that played the Crowd. As does the Scottish surnames McWhirter and McWhorter.
@@johnbrereton5229 Indeed. Great names all the same - didn't know about the Scottish ones.
My point was just that it's fantastic to have a Welsh spelling being the standard English usage.
Reminds me of jouhikko/tagelharpa. But those instruments have their own unique sound and history ❤️ cheers from finland
About to get my Crwth in February 2019 when its ready to come from the maker. I look forward to using it in our band, especially accompanying the singer when she performs traditional folk ballads.
Where are you getting it from?
@@samsmith6594 From Michael J. King (Luthier)
How do you like it now that you've had it for a while?
@@allegoricalstatueThe suspense is killing me!
Amazing, I was just studying the history of European instruments so this is just perfect :D
El Peppe thanks for watching!
How are there not more views?!
The bridge seems to have one foot connected to the back, and one to the top.
Really interesting seeing a bridge that almost in a way, functions as it's own sound post.
Another excellent video, now I know about another instrument I had no idea about, superb production values as always thanks.
Awesomely cool! Thanks! Happy holidays! 🌞🎅🏻🎉
Brilliant as always. Keep'em coming!
Thanks for this video. I'm planning out making a copy of the same instrument, and this was a tremendous help!
That piece at the end!!
5:52 GLORIOUS!!!!!!!!
It's a sound from another time, right!
Thanks a lot! Very beautiful sound and very interesting!
I don't know why, but the sound of this instrument brings a tear to my eye.
I LOVE this instrument. Would love to learn to play it.
spectacularly esoteric. thank you.
There is one guy in America that I know of that plays a crwth that he made, I believe his name is Ryan Koons.
They seem to be a pretty rare find!
Wow, this was a great & informative video, it's very fun to learn about the crwth like this! Love to see Bala representing here, too. :D Dw i'n hoffi'r crwth. Diolch am y fideo!
Hi I'm a fiddle player and originally from Wales, I would love to play a Crwth and would like to make one myself. I'm trying to find some measurements and would also like to know if the bridge is free floating ? Any further information on the instrument would be of grate value. Thank you for posting. Regards, Malcolm.
Nice video, thank you! I am curious about the connection with the nordic "bowed harp" / "stråkharpa" / tagelharpa, which is very similar. Are they related historically?
What a genius design!!❤️
Cool! I
Love this channel
Paul Goeren thank you for watching!!
Thank you.
Thank you for watching! :)
Cool!
nice, a bit sad sounding. I like it.
Instant sub
Any info on where to get a crwth? Seems very hard compared to say a good early medieval lyre.
find a luthier to make you one localy
Lark in the Morning sells them.
Dave...You spoke of poetry...Do you sing along with while you play?
Where does one buy a Crwth in the U.S?
I'm in Chicago and I make crwths. A person I had made a crwth for went to Wales and met Cass Meurig. Seems my crwth was satisfactory. You can find me on Etsy, Glennsshipmodelsetc. I make two sizes. Ms Meurig here is playing the larger alto size.
@@glennbraun3908is “Glenn’s early music etc” the new name for your Etsy page?
I'm writing a book and one character plays the Irish timpan. Unfortunately, it's extinct, and my sources say that the timpan was like either the crwth or the jouhikko.
This instrument has an underrated pizzicato tone.
Tune at the end is "Ambell i gan"
Actually the tune in the middle at 5.50 is Ambell i Gan. There's a version with lyrics, but no crwth, here ruclips.net/video/Npf7P43QDEM/видео.html. The tune at the end is Min Mair
@@NigelBond66
Thanks!
WHY DO I KEEP ON FINDING WEIRD STRING INSTRUMENTS?! LIKE, IT'S INTERESTING BE BUT STILL!!
This sounds like Hardingfele, a traditional Norwegian fiddle with gut strings underneath the metal strings.
Shwmae Cass, A wnaethoch chi hyn yn hunan? A yw felly'n dweud wrthym sut? Rhisiart Ydw i, Rydym wedi gwneud pibaugorn Cymreig eleni ar gyfer ein grŵp, a fyddech chi'n dweud wrthym sut i wneud ein rhai ein hunain?
no jamsession. so sad. "alexa play Despacito 2 (Crwth)"
Maximilian Behrens haha, maybe that should be the next series. Despacito covers around the world
I wanted to know about that weird bridge that was half in one of the sound holes!
I literally thought this was posted by the youtuber Crwth, who is a music producer
Me too
Would this be accepted as a Scrabble word, I wonder?
Haha, it would be a good one!
I'm no Scrabble expert, but if you can use the word "piano", why not "crwth"?
Used it myself in a game so yes haha
Thanks! I'll try it on my Kindle, if I can.
@@mosart7025 when we play the physical version, we tend to have the Oxford English Dictionary to hand. Which built-in dictionary does the Kindle app use, I wonder?
you should review charango
YES! Its on my list! I managed to interview a Cavaquinho player in Brazil, but I need more time around South America to hunt up those amazing instruments.
The surname 'Crowder' brought me here
Woah I didn't realise that history! Interesting!
The surname “Crowther” brought me here too!
Oh shit you're right! My last name is also based on this instrument. In Scott Gaelic is basically means "Son of the Chruiter."
My last name was based on this instrument. It's how I found this video lol.
A crwth of gold against your soul... seems like she won that wager.
You didn't talk about how the bridge has one foot on the soundboard and one on the back.
si vous etes au licee liker mon coment et reply mon coment
First time I’ve seen such an weird instrument.
She went from Roman Lyre to Crwth, completely skipping the Nordic Tagelharp/Jouhikko - which was a bowed lyre with fewer, but fingered notes and no fingerboard. And with the flat bridge and droning nature of Crwth playing, it's a clear descendent of those instruments. Obviously they all come from ancient Lyres, but I think neglecting the Nordic input is neglecting a big important element.
It's not impossible that Taliesin played one.
The crwth probably developed in Egypt judging the art of that country about 1900 BCE. It was plucked with a plectrum, however.
The Crwth is indigenous to Britain there are other bowed lyres around Northern Europe (Talharpa, Gue) that are of the same box style. We don’t find bowed box lyres in anywhere south of Northern Europe other than one ancient depiction from Egypt of that boxy lyre which is almost certainly just a coincidence.
Make bowed lyres great again!
Got here because of LS' 5Head hangman scam
DADDAD????
I'm not so sure that'd work because of the fingering. I believe she said she's tuned eEAABB, but also tunes dDAABB from what I understood.
Ee aABb
I end up here ´cause I was learning the vowels.
The thought of a bowed instrument with a flat bridge seems like a total nightmare in the hands of anyone who isnt an expert.
This word has no vowels and I’m confused and sad and scared.
can be a vowel or consonant in Welsh, just like can be a consonant or a vowel in English.
To be 100% honest is has a very miserable sound. My surname is Crowther meaning the player of the Crwth. So way back I had an ancestor who made an income playing one. I'd love to learn but I think I'd be stressed about its limitations and sad drone.
Listen to Cass's album (2003). There's a few upbeat tunes like Dydd Calan and Llawenydd. Overall, I've found that Welsh folk music from the middle ages had a quality of melancholy to it. The crwth and the pibau, even the harp are often played to that aspect. Perhaps that's a anachronistic reading, but for me it sets Wales's folk music apart from other Celtic nations (though Brittany's folk tradition is similarly 'drone-like').
Lock him up he has no business here. Geezer
crwth, that's not a real word
It is in Welsh, and the crwth (pronounced 'crooth') is a Welsh instrument of great antiquity.
@@marchellabrahams I know, it was just a joke
@@swagrobloxgamer1531 My apologies.
@@swagrobloxgamer1531 I thought jokes were meant to be amusing?
@@ealing456 Not everyone has the same humor
horrible sound. it cuts right though you.
Each unto their own. I think it sounds beautiful.
Interesting...