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The gayageum or kayagum (Korean: 가야금; Hanja: 伽倻琴) is a traditional Korean musical instrument. It is a plucked zither with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 18, 21 or 25 strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument. [1]
Geomungo Gayageum. Gayageum (가야금; 伽倻琴) – A long zither with 12 strings; modern versions may have 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, or 25 strings; Geomungo (거문고) – A fretted bass zither with six to eleven silk strings that is plucked with a bamboo stick and played with a weight made out of cloth
Korea: 312.22 Half-tube zither with seven silk strings, played with a piece of forsythia wood Đàn tranh 檀箏 Vietnam: 312.22 Wooden-bodied and steel-stringed zither gayageum [1] [2] kayagum, kayago, kayagŭm, 가야금, 伽倻琴 Korea: 312.22-5 zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings. geomungo komungo, kŏmun'go, hyeongeum, hyongum ...
Single stringed instrument, blown rather than plucked or strummed, with the string attached to a coconut shell resonator and with a tension noose wrapped around the string to adjust the pitch 311.121.222 — Korea: gayageum [82] [83] kayagum, kayago: zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings. 312.22-5: Kyrgyzstan: komuz [84] [85]
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Hwang Byungki (31 May 1936, in Seoul – 31 January 2018) [1] was the foremost South Korean player of the gayageum, a 12-string zither with silk strings. He was also a composer and an authority on sanjo, a form of traditional Korean instrumental music.
He plays the kayagum and ajaeng, and sings in both traditional Korean and free improvisational styles. He began his musical studies at the age of ten and later studied traditional instruments, voice, dance, and Western music at the National Conservatory in Seoul and at Seoul National University, earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in musicology. He ...
national music [1]) produced by Korea includes court music, folk music, poetic songs, and religious music used in shamanistic and Buddhist traditions. [2] Modern music includes K-pop (케이팝; keipap), the popular music of South Korea. North Korea also produces its own popular music, as well as music that's inspired by traditional music.