The Welsh Crwth, Its History, and Its Genealogy
Description:
In the early years of the nineteenth century, when bowed string instruments were assumed to have reached the apex of their development, there arose among antiquarians and scholars a widespread interest in tracing the ancestry of the violin and related members of the chordophone family. This task proved to be exceedingly formidable not only because of the enormous amount of often obscure evidence which had to be taken into consideration but also because of the manner in which many items of evide…
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Date:
August 1973
Creator:
Bevil, J. Marshall (Jack Marshall)