Korea Traditional Musical Instruments
By YoungJin KIM Sorting of Musical Instruments
현악기(絃樂器 | String Musical Instruments)
타악기(打樂器 | Percussion Musical Instruments)
관악기(管樂器 | Wind Musical Instruments)
By YoungJin KIM String Musical Instruments
By YoungJin KIM 가야금 | Gayageum
'Gayageum' (a 12-stringed) was made by King Gasil of the Gaya Kingdom. The original name was 'gayatgo'. "Gayatgo' is a mixed word of 'gaya' from the Kingdom of Gaya and 'go', an old word referring to a stringed instrument.
'Gayageum' has 12 silk strings on the sounding board of paulownia. Strings are plucked by fingers.
By YoungJin KIM 거문고 | Geomungo
'Geomungo’ (a six-stringed) originated from Chinese 'chilhyeongeum' imported from a Chinese kingdom. It was transmitted to the Unified Silla Kingdom.
The instrument has 6 silk strings on a resonator made of paulownia .
‘Gayageum' sounds fragile and feminine, while ‘Geomungo' sounds deep and masculine.
By YoungJin KIM 양금양금양금 | Yanggeum
‘Yanggeum’ means "a western instrument". a metal-stringed instrument, was introduced in the early years of the King Yeongjo period through China from Europe.
The 56 strings, four strings for each of the 14 courses. 'Yanggeum' produces sounds by striking the strings with a bamboo hammer.
By YoungJin KIM 해금해금해금 | Haegeum
‘Haegeum’ belongs to rubbed, stringed instruments. It seemed to have been introduced from China, but it didn't originate from China.
It is made of the 8 materials of gold, stone, string, bamboo, gourd, clay, leather, and wood
There is a resonator with two silk strings over it. A bow made of horsehair scrapes the strings to make sounds.
By YoungJin KIM Percussion Musical Instruments
By YoungJin KIM 징징징 | Jing
‘Jing’ It is used as an indicator of the first beat of each 'jangdan' (rhythm).
It is struck while being held in one hand, or it is hit while lying down or while being put on the knee. The mallet wrapped with cloth produces deep and soft sounds with long lingering sounds .
By YoungJin KIM 꽹과리 | Kkwaengwari
‘Kkwaenggwari’ is the same in shape with ‘Jing' and only smaller in size.
It is a brass gong with a 20 cm diameter. A red string attached to it is like a handle.
A player holds ‘Kkwaenggwari' with the left hand by grabbing the red string and strikes it with a wooden mallet.
By YoungJin KIM 운라운라운라 | Ulla
‘Ulla’ It is a set of 10 brass-plate-shaped disks.
It is hit by a mallet to produce sounds. The sounds are clear.
The disk lowest in tune is put at the far left and then the tune gets higher as you go to the right . In the second row, the others are opposite. The lowest one is on the right.
The tune gets higher as you go towards the left.
By YoungJin KIM 장고장고장고 | Janggo
‘Janggo’ is an hourglass-shaped drum, was imported from the West.
It is struck by a stick, giving it the name of "jang".
It is played with the drummer sitting down on the floor. The left head is made of thick hide, producing low sounds, and the right head is made of thin hide, producing high pitches.
By YoungJin KIM Wind Musical Instruments
By YoungJin KIM 대금대금대금 | Daegeum
‘Daegeum’ , a large transverse flute, It was being in Silla.
It was made of yellow bamboo.
'Daegeum' has a blowing hole with a closed end and a buzzing membrane covered with a thin reed that give it a unique timbre. There are six finger holes, producing high and low pitches, and a hole of the seventh star.
By YoungJin KIM 생황생황생황 | Saenghwang
‘Saenghwang’ , is constructed from 17 bamboo pipes, each with a metal free reed, mounted in a windchest made of a dried gourd.
It is a free-reed mouth organ. Air is blown into a hole in the wind chest, causing the metal reeds to vibrate to make sounds .
By YoungJin KIM 피리피리피리 | Piri
‘Piri’ , a cylindrical double-reed bamboo oboe, it is the bamboo wind instruments. being blown vertically or transversely.
It was imported from Song, China, when new music was introduced in the 9th year of the King Yejong period of Goryeo .
By YoungJin KIM 태평소 | Taepyeongso
‘Taepyeongso’ , It was imported from the West at the end of the Goryeo period.
It generally has a conical wooden body made of hard wood with a metal mouthpiece and a cup-shaped metal bell. It has 7 finger holes in the front and one at the back
By YoungJin KIM Harmony with Western Musical Instruments
TITLE - Cannon
Player - Gayageum Players - Beatboxer - B-boys
By YoungJin KIM Thank you for listening
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By YoungJin KIM