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Janggu—National Percussion Instrument

Date: 15/09/2024 | Source: Naenara (En) | Read original version at source

Janggu was invented in the period of Koguryo (277 BC-AD 668).

It has two sound boxes linked with each other by ropes fixed on 8 iron-rimmed holes on the batter skin. It can function as two drums.

Its timbre and pitch interval is adjusted by tightening or loosening the batter skin with the clamps on the tension ropes.

Designed to produce unique timbre, the instrument is highly expressive and varied in playing techniques.

Its playing techniques are divided largely into those of drumming and sticking, each of which has six techniques.

In the long historical course of its being widely disseminated among the Korean people, its application has been widened and its playing techniques developed. It is now used as a leading instrument in the orchestral music of small size or sometimes as a solo instrument.

It is also used as a dance prop and in the people’s recreational life.

Sim Chol Yong

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