geomungo
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The geomungo, alternate name hyeongeum, is a traditional Korean plucked zither with both bridges and frets. Geomungo is a representative stringed instrument made in Goguryeo before the 5th century. Scholars believe that the name refers to Goguryeo and translates to "Goguryeo zither" or that it refers to the colour and translates to "black crane zither" ().
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Vinony's link graph records 84 inbound references to geomungo, and connects out to santur, psaltery and China.
Vinony files it under Fretted zithers, Goguryeo and Korean musical instruments.
Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Korean name/auto.image
- Geomungo 거문고.jpg
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- 거문고
- Korean name/auto.hangul1
- 현금
- Korean name/auto.hanja1
- 玄琴
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- native label
- 현학금
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 312.22
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- Geomungo
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Encyclopedic overview
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The geomungo, alternate name hyeongeum, is a traditional Korean plucked zither with both bridges and frets. Geomungo is a representative stringed instrument made in Goguryeo before the 5th century. Scholars believe that the name refers to Goguryeo and translates to "Goguryeo zither" or that it refers to the colour and translates to "black crane zither" ().
The geomungo's place in Korean culture is traditionally that of a scholars' instrument for self-cultivation, much like ancient Chinese had done with the guqin in China. However, the Koreans never adopted the guqin as a folk instrument but instead inherited the Confucian and literati guqin lore wholesale and applied it onto their own geomungo lore.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “geomungo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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