Korean Instruments
Monday, March 17th, 2008Wow, I just uploaded this post and it disappeared! Gone! So here it goes again in a shortened version.
I posted about the Korean Children’s Orchedstra coming to town a while back but I didn’t get much feedback on it. I said I would post some instrument pictures to the forum but I am still in that going to mode…
Here are some pictures from the performance rehearsal.
The show opened with drums:
Here is Stephanie practicing the 해금:
The 태평소 soloist:
Here is an interesting variation on the traditional 가야금. It has 25 strings instead of 12. The North Korean version has 24 strings.
I will get these into the forum too. Soon.
Posted by steved in Steve's House |
March 18th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Too bad that the posting has disappeared … I know what it feels like when all the work is *gone* just like that… T.T I hope it doesn’t happen again. I went into the admin page to check if there was anything saved as draft but couldn’t find anything.
BTW, wow 가야금 with 25 strings?
So it has more sounds between the regular notes?
March 18th, 2008 at 2:47 am
I wish I had saved the post prior to messing with adding pictures. It was late…
The 25 string 가야금 adds more notes between the treaditional notes. It can sound a lot like a harp depending on how it is played. A traditional 가야금 doesn’t have the full scale represented across the strings in full or half steps like a guitar. The 25 string version fills in the gaps. We have a 12 string 가야금 at home but nobody really knows how to play it
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March 18th, 2008 at 11:45 am
does your daughter play 해금 regularly? Just curious, and there people teaching those traditional instruments where you live?
I know in places with large Korean populations, there are always 학원’s teaching the traditional dances and instruments. I never did that stuff myself, but my cousin was really into it when she was younger.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I heard that playing the 해금 is torture on the fingers because there is no fretboard.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:53 am
We don’t have any instructors for any traditional Korean instuments around here. I think that the closest would be Los Angeles or San Francisco, maybe. Stephanie picked up some of the 해금 while the orchestra was here. She is better at the 가야금 and quite good at piano. (She attends a music based college prep high school.)
The kids that came with the orchestra didn’t complain at all about their respective instruments and many played for fun in their off time, including the 해금.
My wife was a leader for 농악 group through high school. She is pretty good with the 장고.