I know extremely little about Komungo, though the one thing I love about it is it's deep bass toanlity. Does anyone know where does its name derive from? In Japan it is said and it is known that the Koto was once played with a stick and I wonder whether the Komungo was ever introduced to Japan at one point or another? After all, part of the Koto's history is attributed to having entered Japan via Korea. Very cool zither!
according to 三國史記, 王山岳 changed 七絃琴originated from china and made Geomungo. originally it was 4 string 17괘, know it's changed to 6string 16괘. King was sad becasue no one can play the 七絃琴 but 王山岳 changed the playing and composed about 100 songs. There is saying that the name is from Gogureo(~663) 'gum' and 'gom' with 'go' indicating string instrument so it represents Gogureo's instrument.
In this period chinese thigs went to korea then japan so it has very low possibility(99%) to say koto is origin. Unfortunately most of korean preasuous historical thigs are changed or burned during invation of "youknow where" so it's kinda sad.
Thanks for the insightful information. Yes, I do recall reading somewhere that at some point or another the Koto in Japan was played with a stick but it doesn't seem to have stuck for too long. As a matter of fact in acient records the name for the Korean zither is referred to as the "Kudaragoto", Kudara referring to Korea if I am not mistaken. I love the Asian zithers and then I love history also so I am always trying to find out more and more aobout them. Thanks again!!
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jemimahmarquez 5 months ago
that's a komungo..... not gayageum.
sickofsynthetics 1 year ago
what is the name of the instrument?
tackydk 1 year ago
@tackydk it's called gayageum
BeatDaJam 1 year ago
Where is this available on DVD?
TexasSizzle 2 years ago
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a very boring one.
PakDaeHan 2 years ago
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too much unnecessary pushing down on the strings!!!
PakDaeHan 2 years ago
I know extremely little about Komungo, though the one thing I love about it is it's deep bass toanlity. Does anyone know where does its name derive from? In Japan it is said and it is known that the Koto was once played with a stick and I wonder whether the Komungo was ever introduced to Japan at one point or another? After all, part of the Koto's history is attributed to having entered Japan via Korea. Very cool zither!
lpmar176 2 years ago
according to 三國史記, 王山岳 changed 七絃琴originated from china and made Geomungo. originally it was 4 string 17괘, know it's changed to 6string 16괘. King was sad becasue no one can play the 七絃琴 but 王山岳 changed the playing and composed about 100 songs. There is saying that the name is from Gogureo(~663) 'gum' and 'gom' with 'go' indicating string instrument so it represents Gogureo's instrument.
iwholefoodsi 2 years ago
In this period chinese thigs went to korea then japan so it has very low possibility(99%) to say koto is origin. Unfortunately most of korean preasuous historical thigs are changed or burned during invation of "youknow where" so it's kinda sad.
iwholefoodsi 2 years ago
Thanks for the insightful information. Yes, I do recall reading somewhere that at some point or another the Koto in Japan was played with a stick but it doesn't seem to have stuck for too long. As a matter of fact in acient records the name for the Korean zither is referred to as the "Kudaragoto", Kudara referring to Korea if I am not mistaken. I love the Asian zithers and then I love history also so I am always trying to find out more and more aobout them. Thanks again!!
lpmar176 2 years ago
@iwholefoodsi ??? what in this period chinese thing went into korea? this is purely korean instrument and their traditional music.
freedomofmymind 1 year ago
Impressive!
What instrument is that?
Auleliel 3 years ago
It's a Komungo or Geomungo, however you wish to spell it. ..:)
lpmar176 2 years ago
That looks hard to play...
xXAvatarofGuitarXx 3 years ago