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The haegeum (Korean: 해금) is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a vertical fiddle with two strings; derived from the ancient Chinese xiqin. It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, and two silk strings, and is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow.
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[1] [2] It is essentially a modernized form of the haegeum (a traditional Korean bowed vertical fiddle). Its tuning pegs are like those of the violin, inserted from the side, compared to those of the haegeum, which are inserted from the front. The bow used is not used in between the strings but is played from the front like the violin also.
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The sanjo gayageum version of the instrument has closer string spacing and a shorter length to let musicians play the faster passages required for sanjo. [2] The sanjo gayageum is now the most widespread form of gayageum. [3] All traditional gayageum use silk strings, though since the late 20th century, some musicians use nylon.
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[3] Top a daegeum, in the middle a junggeum , to the right a piri . According to Korean folklore, the daegeum is said to have been invented when King Sinmun of Silla was informed by Park Suk Jung, his caretaker of the ocean ( Korean : 해관 ; Hanja : 海官 ) in 681 that a small island was floating toward a Buddhist temple in the East Sea.