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well, once again it turns out that the crowd, which is indeed the English version of crwth, is an entirely different word from that which we are accustomed to -- some who have bandied crwth around (including the OSPD) probably never bothered to look up crowd.
An ancient Celtic musical instrument of the viol class, now obsolete, having in early times three strings, but in its later form six, four of which were played with a bow and two by twitching with the fingers; an early form of the fiddle.
Grove Dict. Mus. Crwth or Crowd, as far as we know the oldest stringed instrument played with the bow... Bingley heard it played at Carnarvon as late as 1801; but it is now entirely out of use.
Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) He intricately rhymes, to the music of crwth and pibgorn.
...Bingley??
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