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The talharpa, also known as a tagelharpa (tail-hair harp), hiiu kannel (originally hiiurootsi (which meant Vormsi island located on the halfway to Hiiumaa) kannel) or stråkharpa (bowed harp), is a two to four stringed bowed lyre from northern Europe. It is questionable whether it was formerly common and widespread in Scandinavia.
Talharpa See Rotte for the psaltery, or Rotta for the plucked lyre. The crwth ( / k r uː θ / KROOTH , Welsh: [kruːθ] ), also called a crowd or rote or crotta , is a bowed lyre , a type of stringed instrument , associated particularly with Welsh music , now archaic but once widely played in Europe.
Talharpa. British Isles, from where it traveled through the Shetland Islands and Norway to Sweden, ending up in Estonia and Finland. Crwth, Westminster Abbey, 14th century A.D. An Estonian man playing the hiiu kannel (or, talharpa), ca. 1920. Talharpa, Norway.
This list contains musical instruments of symbolic or cultural importance within a nation, state, ethnicity, tribe or other group of people.. In some cases, national instruments remain in wide use within the nation (such as the Puerto Rican cuatro), but in others, their importance is primarily symbolic (such as the Welsh triple harp).
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Most of these regions have only very sketchy evidence about their extinct bowed lyre traditions. The four-stringed Estonian talharpa and hiiu kannel have a wider hand hole and can play a wider range and shifting drones. [12] The Welsh crwth is the most developed of this family to survive, with six strings, a fingerboard, and a complex playing ...
Einar Selvik (born 18 November 1979), also known by his stage name Kvitrafn ("white raven"), is a Norwegian musician known for being the drummer of black metal band Gorgoroth from 2000 to 2004, and for fronting the Nordic folk project Wardruna, founded in 2002.
This rabāb is the ancestor of many European bowed instruments, including the rebec and the lyra, [3] though not of bowed instruments in the lyre family such as the crwth, jouhikko, talharpa and gue. This article will only concentrate on the spike-fiddle Rebab, which usually consists of a small, usually rounded body, the front of which is ...