Full Unbiased Review: Crwth / Rote
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2018
- A new Full Unbiased Review, this time of a very uncommon musical instrument: the weslh crwth, or crowd, or rote, or whatever.
Here you can listen the original nylon strings: • Welsh Crwth: Eldrim tr...
And here is Ars Anglia's web page: www.ars-anglia.de/ 
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Hi there! I wanted to stop in and thank you for this review! It's what got me to check out Ars Anglia and buy a Crwth for myself! I took your advice and got the violin strings too! Matter of fact, I linked the maker this very video! I have done a bit of modification to it since the initial purchase (more traditonal bridge and cow horn tailpiece), and in talking to the maker, he's updated his design, but this was the spark that set me on my journey, so I just wanted to say thank you so much again for this video review!
I'm happy to help, this is exactly what I'm striving for: starting people on a journey that will lead them much further than I went myself!
Just as a little side note, this three-stringed style is known as a "Crwth Trithant." There's even some old pictures showing folks playing them. Funnily, most of the Trithant depictions I've found show them being played between the knees, or resting on the thigh, like you do here. The against the chest position seems to be more common with the 6 string version. I play mine with an "underhand" bow grip, palm facing more upward, with index and middle fingers adjusting the tension on the bow hair.
Thanks! My guess is that the "on the knee" position was common in the middle ages as many instruments were played "da gamba". This is also when the illustrations of 3-stringed crwth come from (as far as I know). Playing on the side is common in folk fiddle so it may have originated from there - and perhaps from the need of folk musicians to play while standing!
Thank you for discovering! Very interesting and beautiful sound.
Hello, how this crotte is tuned? Beautiful sound.
p.s. Last track - cuncti simus concanentes?
Exactly! I'm not 100% sure because i changed tuning, but it should be GDF or GDG
Whats the difference between the 3 string crwth vs. the 6 string one?
A 6-string crwth has normally 3 choirs. Just like a 12 string guitar is pretty much like a 6 string guitar but with more presence.
Ok, one thing I can't figure out reliably is how many strings you're supposed to be able/have to play at once. I get the difference between 6 strings and 3, and seeing you play on 2 here makes perfect sense to me musically after having been educated in scottish trad for fiddle, loads of double stops. But I've only ever seen people play on all 3/6 before as a droning chord, this is the first I'm seeing of one of the strings not being on that same constant bowstroke.
Also, do you have the measurements for the instrument? Its exactly the sort of instrument I could make, but I can't find even rough specifications anywhere, and I'd rather not eyeball it.
I can't measure that right now, but I assure you, as long as you get the frets right, it will work! Try a violin scale length to begin with.
These instruments have flat bridges, so theoretically you should play all strings together. This restricts option because you get a fixed tuning, and I'm not a lover of theory, so sometimes I pull away the drone and play one or two strings at a time, violin style.
I own a crwth as well, but I see this isn't an original crwth.. it only has 3 strings ?
Depends on what you mean by the word "original"
@@CaptainGurdy Well, the crwth started out by just being a 6 string plucking instrument. Then later on, it was given a neck with 4 string that lay on top of it, and 2 other strings off the neck use for plucking.
So, seeing a crwth with 3 strings and frets on the neck is strange to me since I haven't seen one before.
@@kristysanden425 The frets are unusual, but I'd heard that 3 stringed crwths were played at the same point in history as 6 strings, but were considered a lower class variant of hte instrument. Travelling minstrels as opposed to players in a noble court. But instruments almost identical to these under countless different names were used at the same time throughout europe, so a confusing account is only natural. Interesitngly though, a different family of bowed lyra from around the same time did sometimes have frets, the italian rebec. It was either from that, or from the crwth that the viol, viola, and cello families appeared. My guess is it was the crwth that inspired rebecs, as they tended to be slightly later, and overlapped in the 15th century, and because the now extinct viol (not to be confused with the viola family which includes modern violins) continued into the baroque era, and did have frets.