Talk:Gayageum

Under construction

I'm still going to add more sections to this article, probably techniques and styles.

postmoderncore 10:45, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Great work so far! -- Visviva 11:01, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

I wonder if more modern use of the instrument should be mentioned. http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2013/04/135_134124.html mentions that it's ideal for blues because of the nong-hyun technique.. Larssmith (talk) 04:43, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

History

I think according to Samguksagi, the history of Gasil goes like this. One day he heard someone playing the chinese instrument Zheng and says that why do we need a chinese instrument to play our music? We have our own culture. So, to better suit the taste of the korean music at that time, he ordered his craftsmen to make the korean version of the zheng under his supervision. Later he named the instrument gayatgo to distinguish between the instrument he invented in the Gaya kingdom and the Zheng. The Hanja for Gayatgo is comprised of the word 'Gaya' for Gaya kingdom and 'Go' for stringed instrument, implies the instrument is originated in the gaya confederacy.

In a different reference, a legend says that the arrival of zheng to korea. A chinese king has two rivaling daughters who both wants to inherit a 25 string Se. In a struggle they broke the instrument into two pieces of 12 and 13 strings each. The king later banished the fighting daughters from his kingdom. The younger daughter with her 12 strings part of the instrument flees to korea while the older daughter with her 13 stringed part of the instrument went to japan. Thats why the gayageum has 12 strings and koto has 13 strings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.53.20.98 (talk) 18:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Switched back to earlier image

I reverted to the image which was in this article as of Special:Permalink/620610987. That image had been in the article for seven years without any opposition. Additionally, I think it's a better image in visual terms because the subject has high contrast with the background. In contrast, the other image features a person wearing white clothes on a white background, and the editors who inserted it (and removed the old image) and keep blowing it up to very large sizes seem to be interested solely in promoting one specific gayageum player rather than contributing to Wikipedia in general. In any case, any uninvolved editor should feel free to pick another better image or even use both images if they feel in good faith that it would be an improvement. 210.6.254.106 (talk) 12:03, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

pun: Gay + age + -um

Traditional Korean Music isn't immediately perceived as harmonious, but it might have some deeper soothing effect, if one is tolerant towards it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2149:821A:3100:F9E1:2DDA:4FE8:40F6 (talk) 22:48, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

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