Talk:Gayageum

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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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 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 Gayatgo is comprised of the word 'Gaya' for Gaya kingdom and 'Go' for stringed instrument.

In a different refference, 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)