Crowdy-crawn

Crowdy-crawn
Crowdy-crawn
Percussion instrument
Classification percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
(Membranophone)
Related instruments
Drum, Bodhrán

A crowdy-crawn is a wooden hoop covered with sheepskin used as a percussion instrument known in western Cornwall at least as early as 1880.[1] It is similar to the Irish bodhrán.[2] The crowdy-crawn is said to have started out as a tool for gathering corn;[3] the term is derived from the Cornish "croder croghen," literally "skin sieve."[4][5] It is used by some modern Cornish traditional music groups as a solo or accompaniment instrument.[6][7] The term is also used modernly to describe a gathering of people for Cornish cultural storytelling, lace-making, quilting, spinning and similar activities.[8]

References

  1. ^ Margaret Ann Courtney and Thomas Quiller Couch. 1880. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall. London: The English Dialect Society, Trübner & Co., 1880, p. 16. Accessed at http://www.archive.org/details/glossarywordsin00quilgoog, September 11, 2011.
  2. ^ Tony Upton: Tony's Celtic Music Pages, http://tonyupton.tripod.com/cornwall.html, page last modified: Wednesday, 25-Oct-2006.
  3. ^ Courtney and Couch, 1880, p. 15.
  4. ^ Mervyn Davey. 1978. "Cornish Music" in Carn quarterly periodical in English and Celtic Languages published by the Celtic League, Issue No. 24, Winter 1978, p. 19 — accessible at http://www.celticleague.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Carn%2024%20Winter%201978.pdf.
  5. ^ June Skinner Sawyers. 2000. Celtic Music: A Complete Guide; From Ancient Roots to Modern Performers: The Music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Beyond. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, p. 17.
  6. ^ Cumpas -- Cornish Music Projects: Crowders, http://www.cumpas.co.uk/education/crowders.php, 29 Sep 2006.
  7. ^ Cornwall24 E-magazine, http://www.cornwall24.net/, n.d. (accessed September 11, 2011).
  8. ^ Wisconsin Historical Society: Pendarvis Historic Site Events Calendar, http://pendarvis.wisconsinhistory.org/Events/EventDetail/Event189.aspx, n.d. (accessed September 11, 2011).
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