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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. Modern gayageum instruments broaden the body and add more strings to increase the pitch range to accommodate contemporary music.
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 ...
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The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither. Generally, it has 18 or more strings and movable bridges. Performers use picks to play this instrument and they are known as "daimao". Performers can play guzheng with both hands with different skills. There are usually a few guzheng members in a Chinese Orchestra, but it can also be played as a solo ...
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