Gwŷr wrth gerdd — a craftsman at his craft
The old instruments of Wales, made to sing again.
Richard Stevenson builds Welsh harps and crwths to commission — one of only a handful of makers in the world still shaping the crwth, the ancient bowed lyre of the bards. Thirty years at the bench, working Welsh timber with techniques three centuries old.
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The Instruments
Two voices from one bench.
From the workshop
Recent notes from the bench.
Featured commissions
A few instruments that have left the workshop.
Cerdd dant
For centuries the harp and the crwth carried the poetry of the bards — the old art of cerdd dant, "the craft of the string," in which the voice and the instrument answered one another beneath the great houses of Wales. The instruments are quiet again now; the poetry keeps.
Croeso — welcome