Engineering:Chrotta
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Short description: Contested Irish instrument
The charota, is a musical instrument played in Ireland, whose exact description is contested.
According to Irish historian Gratton Flood, it was a small harp played with a bow. The instrument could be rested on knees or on a table.[1]
Flood notes that the historian Gerbert[who?] had described the charota as an oblong instrument with six strings, four of which on a fingerboard and two off of it.[2]
Historian Carl Engel noted that a 6th-century CE Italian writer, Venantius Fortunatus, had mentioned the "Charota Britanna" in a poem, but did not mention any bow.[3]
See also
- Crwth, a similar Welsh instrument
References
- ↑ Nora Joan Clark (1 November 2003). The story of the Irish harp: its history and influence. North Creek Press. pp. 31–. ISBN 978-0-9724202-0-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ga6qcxoVdboC&pg=PA31. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ↑ William Henry Grattan Flood (1905). The story of the harp. Scott. pp. 9–. https://books.google.com/books?id=IJoIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
- ↑ Carl Engel (1876). Musical instruments .... Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong. pp. 93–. https://books.google.com/books?id=jO4PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA93. Retrieved 6 April 2011.
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