Chrotta: Ireland musical instrument
The chrotta was a musical instrument that was played in the British Isle, whose description is contested. source of picture: toomasmar...
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The chrotta was a musical instrument
that was played in the British Isle, whose description is contested.
source of picture: toomasmarga.com
According to the Irish historian
called Gratton Flood, the chrotta was a small harp that was played with the use
of a bow. The musical instrument could be rested on the knees or on a table
when playing it.
Flood cites that the historian
Gerbert had described the musical instrument as an oblong musical instrument
that has 6 strings, 4 of the strings of which on a fingerboard and 2 of the
strings off the fingerboard of the instrument.
Historian Carl Engel cited that a 6th
century Italian writer, Venantius Fortunatus had stated the ‘chrotta Britanna’
in a poem, though he never mentioned any bow.
