kayagum
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Demonstration of the sound of gayageum by a non-professional player
Key facts
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- 풍류가야금.jpg
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- 가야금
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 伽倻琴
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- 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.