Y crwth
The Crwth
The lyre of the bards
Six gut strings — four bowed and two drones. Older than the violin, and by 1800 almost gone. Today, one of the world's rarest instruments to own.
Read more →The Instruments
Voices from one bench.
Richard's bench is given first to the old instruments of Wales — the harp and the crwth — but the same hands build for the folk session too: the carved and flat-backed mandolin, and the long-necked Irish bouzouki. Each is made to commission, from Welsh timber where he can find it, at the pace the wood asks for.
Y delyn
The Welsh Harp
The heart of Welsh music
From folk and lever harps to the full triple harp — telyn deires — three rows of strings and close to a hundred of them, each voiced for its player.
Read more →
Song & session
The Mandolin
Carved and quick
Carved-top or flat-backed folk mandolin — eight bright strings, built to the player's hand and voiced to cut cleanly through a session.
Read more →
The session's engine
The Bouzouki
Greek by birth, Irish by adoption
The flat-backed Irish bouzouki, cittern and octave mandola — long-necked and ringing, tuned for rhythm and drone beneath the tune.
Read more →Croeso — welcome