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The gayageum is employed in different types of music, leading to variations of the instrument, including the following: Pungryu gayageum is the original form, with more widely spaced strings for slower-tempo works. Sanjo gayageum is a smaller, modern version with more closely spaced strings to accommodate rapid playing.
A man playing the đàn tranh beside the singer. The đàn tranh (Vietnamese: [ɗâːn ʈajŋ̟], 彈 箏) or đàn thập lục [1] is a plucked zither of Vietnam, based on the Chinese guzheng, from which are also derived the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Mongolian yatga, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen.
Similar instruments include the Chinese se and yazheng, Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Japanese koto, [1] the Kazakh jetigen, and the Sundanese kacapi. The most common type of yatga in contemporary use is the twenty one-stringed version. This type of yatga is also called a "master yatga."
The zheng (pinyin: zhēng; Wade–Giles: cheng), or guzheng (Chinese: 古筝; pinyin: gǔzhēng; lit. 'ancient zheng'), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is 64 inches (1.6 m; 5 ft 4 in) long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale. It has a large, resonant soundboard made from Paulownia wood ...
Similar to Chinese guzheng, yazheng and se, Japanese koto, Korean gayageum and ajaeng, Mongolian yatga, Vietnamese đàn tranh, and Sundanese kacapi. The strings were sometimes made of horsehair. [1] The jetigen is played by plucking, in a similar manner to the gusli, tube zither or box zither.
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guzheng [34] zheng, gu-zheng: Half-tube zither, rectangular with three sound holes on the bottom, now with twenty-one strings most typically, pentatonic tuning, strings are plucked by hand 312.22-5: China: pipa [35] Pear-shaped bowl lute with a neck, played by plucking 321.321-5: China: yangqin [7] yang ch'in, yang qin