looks like you wont be getting this instrument any time soon.... "The three surviving eighteenth-century crwths are kept in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, The Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff, and Warrington Museum."
but the replica instrument looks cool. i like how it has 2 open drone strings. and with the limit of an octave, nice. and a flat bridge so you can bow all of the strings at one time. sounds like the perfect bowed drone instrument to me. cool stuff. my family has deep welsh roots too. but i dont think we are connected to any cool instruments, unless there is one called the 'Dyvss' or something like that....
What is it that I always say again? Oh, yeah: It's the same fucking day, man!
I have a little Welsh as well, passed down through the name "Rowland" with a 'w' on my mom's Olde Delaware side. My Fischers, though, were cool, rich Euro Jews, I think 1/2 from Eastern Europe and 1/2 from Iran. My grandfather looked like the skinny Saddam Hussein, you know, after he came out of the spider hole. My sister and I agree - Saddam is CUTE! I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem.
Re: janis j.castle_keepApril 15 2006, 16:00:17 UTC
yeah, i love that janis j quote. it was my favorite one of the ones you put up before. i've got a thing for dark (hair, complexion, etc) guys in general. maybe its 'cause i'm almost all british isles and i don't like inbreeding. and eastern europeans? hot!
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anonymous
April 15 2006, 16:03:16 UTC
I recently found ou that my last name 'Ledoux' translates into english as 'The Dew' and there are even television commercials instructing people to 'do' 'the dew'
crwth relative in Vergennes?
anonymous
April 17 2006, 13:52:01 UTC
Michelle-I saw a similar looking instrument on Saturday in the window of the antique store next to Eat Good Food in Vergennes. It had the two drone strings at an angle like the crwth and the other straight strings, but was shaped more like a lyre. The fiddlehead was shaped like a woman--it was a beautiful instrument! I should have gone in to ask what it was, but we were in a hurry. I did take 2 pictures of it with my phone. They aren't the best, but I'll e-mail them to Tanner's blog so you can see. It could be a crwth relative--maybe you should buy it and learn to play--you'd probably pick it up so quickly since it's in your genes!
Also--the plant you study is so pretty! I love the leaf shape.
This makes me want to find out more about my last name--I know it's of Anglo Saxon origins, but I want it to mean more than just someone who has a hill in their yard.
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"The three surviving eighteenth-century crwths are kept in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, The Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff, and Warrington Museum."
but the replica instrument looks cool.
i like how it has 2 open drone strings. and with the limit of an octave, nice. and a flat bridge so you can bow all of the strings at one time.
sounds like the perfect bowed drone instrument to me. cool stuff.
my family has deep welsh roots too. but i dont think we are connected to any cool instruments, unless there is one called the 'Dyvss' or something like that....
nice find.
-gd
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Oh, yeah: It's the same fucking day, man!
I have a little Welsh as well, passed down through the name "Rowland" with a 'w' on my mom's Olde Delaware side. My Fischers, though, were cool, rich Euro Jews, I think 1/2 from Eastern Europe and 1/2 from Iran. My grandfather looked like the skinny Saddam Hussein, you know, after he came out of the spider hole. My sister and I agree - Saddam is CUTE! I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem.
Awesome awesome awesome
Mandy
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weird
jb
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doux: (adj) soft; sweet; mild; gentle (applied to personality, taste, weather, etc)
this is the masculine version. the feminine is "douce"
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Also--the plant you study is so pretty! I love the leaf shape.
This makes me want to find out more about my last name--I know it's of Anglo Saxon origins, but I want it to mean more than just someone who has a hill in their yard.
-miss hilliard
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