Crotchet, 1

A quarter-note; cr. -rest, quarter-rest.—2. See Crook 3. Crowd; also Croud, Crouth. (Welsh crwth; Lat. chrot’ta.) An ancient bow-instr., apparently of Welsh or Irish origin, and regarded as the oldest European instr. of the cla ; still found early in the 19th century among the peasantry of Wales, Ireland and Britany, Its body was square, and terminated, instead of by a neck, by 2 parallel arms connected at the end by a cro bar, the centre of which supported the end of the narrow fingerboard; it had originally 3, in modern times 6, strings, 4 lying over the unfretted fingerboard and 2 beside it. The strings pa ed over a bridge, which rested on the belly between 2 sound-holes; the acc or datura [GRovE] was as follows: beside over fingerboard, fingerb.