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triangular-psaltery, or Rote for the fiddle The rotta (also rotte, chrotta or hrotta) is a type of lyre that was widely used in north-western Europe from...

The Anglo-Saxon lyre, also known as the Germanic lyre, a rotta, or the Viking lyre, is a large plucked and strummed lyre that was played in Anglo-Saxon...

psaltery, or Rotta for the plucked lyre. The crwth (/kruːθ/ KROOTH, Welsh: [kruːθ]), also called a crowd or rote or crotta, is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed...

of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate for teaching music to beginners. As opposed to the simpler lyre, the cithara...

stringed instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe, including not only the lyre and harp but also necked, string instruments. In fact, unless a medieval...

See Rotta for the medieval lyre, or Rote for the fiddle During the 12th century A.D., rotte referred to a triangular psaltery with about 10 strings, held...

appendix Brewer 1920, no. 2247, noted: reprinted La Rotta de Francciosi a Terroana novamente facta, La Rotta do Scocesi, Roxburghe Club, no. 37, (1825), presented...

Shoshone – Pocatello – "Shoshone Sun Dance Songs" Venice – Enrico Dandolo – "Rotta Ò Sonata" Zulu – Shaka – "Inhliziyo Yami" Scramble for Africa Scenario –...

hero Väinämöinen. More primitive instruments like the jouhikko (a bowed lyre) and the säkkipilli (Finnish bagpipe) had fallen into disuse, but are now...