Crossword-Solution: CRWTH 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Before this time the crwth was not probably confined to the Principality, from the name of _Crowdero_ in Hudibras; as also from a fiddler being still called a _crowder_ in some parts of England, though he now plays on a violin instead of a crwth.

Possibly an impulse was given the fiddle by the Moorish rebab, brought into Spain in the eighth century, but ancient Celtic bards had long before this used a bow instrument--the chrotta or crwth, derived from the lyre, which was introduced by the Romans in their colonizing expeditions.

After a while she widened her reputation in a curious way as the only performer on the old Welsh stringed instrument called the “crwth,” or cruth.

The harp has always been their principal instrument, and for many centuries a rude kind of violin called the crwth, of which there will be occasion to speak in connection with the violin, at a later period in this work.

For, in addition to being able to accord the harp or the crwth, and play different themes with their variations, two preludes and other pieces "with their sharps and their flats," they had to know the "three styles of expression," and accent them with the voice in different styles of song.