HAEGEUM: Korean musical instrument
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The haegeum is
a traditional string musical
instrument from Korea. The musical instrument
resembles a fiddle. The musical instrument is commonly
called as kkangkkangi. The musical instrument has a rod-like neck, a hollow
wooden sound box, and there are two silk strings on the musical instrument. The musical instrument is held
precipitously on the knee of the player and played with the use of a bow.
The musical instrument is one of the most
commonly used musical instruments in Korea music. The musical instrument is used in court music as well as ordinary
people's music. The range of expression of the musical instrument is different
notwithstanding having only two strings, with the sounds produced from the
musical instrument ranging from mournful and miserable to humorous. The haegeum is manufactured with the use
of eight materials: gold, gourd, rock, thread, bamboo, leather, soil and wood,
and so it is known as paleum.
There
are not any particular records about the period when the musical instrument was first
presented in Korean world. According to many cradles, references to the musical instrument can be seen in hanlimbyeolgok, produced in the Goryeo dynasty, so the musical instrument can be contingent that the haegeum has been in performance at
minimum since that time.
In
the Joseon Dynasty, the musical instrument was used in different classes of music: that
of royal ancestral rites, festivals, parades, and Korean music called hyangak.
The
manner in which the musical instrument
is played improved dramatically ever since the Joseon Dynasty. In the past,
music performers had plucked the string of the musical instrument as they were
tuned, but since then they have started pulling the string of the musical
instrument while they play the instrument to express sound in several manners..
To
increase the acoustic capacity of the haegeum,
different adjustments have been introduced to the instrument since the 1960s.
Park Hun-bong and Kim Bun-gi, in the year 1965, fabricated a low-tune version
of Haegeum, and in 1967 Kim Gisu manufactured a small version of the haegeum.
