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Also known as chongak kayagum, gayageum, gayagŭm, kaya kum, kayago, kayakko, kayako, kayakum

thumb|250px|Demonstration of the sound of gayageum by a non-professional player

Key facts

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가야금
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Contents
  • History
  • Pungryu gayageum (beopgeum, jeongak gayageum)
  • Sanjo gayageum
  • Modern gayageum
  • Playing method
  • Techniques and notation
  • Right Hand Fingering Notation and Techniques
  • Tunings and modes
  • Construction
  • Music
  • Jeongak
  • Sanjo and folk
  • Contemporary
  • See also
  • References
  • External links
  • Listening
  • Video

thumb|250px|Demonstration of the sound of gayageum by a non-professional player

The gayageum or kayagum () is a traditional Korean musical instrument. It is a plucked zither with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 18, 21 or 25 strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument. It is based on the Chinese guzheng and is similar to the Japanese koto, Mongolian yatga, Vietnamese đàn tranh, Sundanese kacapi and Kazakh jetigen.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kayagum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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