page_title: Haegeum
hierarchical_section_title: Haegeum
caption_attribution_description: English: Jung Su-nyun (professor at the School of Traditional Korean Arts, Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, South Korea) playing the haegeum (Korean 2-stringed vertical fiddle). Photo taken at the Kent Stage in Kent, Ohio, United States.
context_page_description: The haegeum is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a fiddle. It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, and two silk strings, and is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow. It is also popularly known as kkangkkang-i, kkaengkkaeng-i, or aeng-geum.
  The haegeum is one of the most widely used instruments in Korean music. The haegeum is used in court music as well as madangnori. The haegeum's range of expression is various despite having only two strings, with sounds ranging from sorrowful and sad to humorous. The haegeum is made using eight materials: metal, stone, silk, bamboo, gourd, clay, hide, and wood, and so it is called paleum.
  The sohaegeum is a modernized fiddle with four strings, used only in North Korea and in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China.
  The haegeum is a Korean musical instrument played with a wooden bow between two lines, standing in line with a large wooden block standing vertically on top of the ring box. The haegeum is a string instrument, but it is classified as a wind instrument rather than a string at the concert.
context_section_description: The haegeum (Korean: 해금) is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a fiddle. It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, and two silk strings, and is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow. It is also popularly known as kkangkkang-i (깡깡이), kkaengkkaeng-i (깽깽이), or aeng-geum (앵금).
  The haegeum is one of the most widely used instruments in Korean music. The haegeum is used in court music as well as madangnori (ordinary people's music). The haegeum's range of expression is various despite having only two strings, with sounds ranging from sorrowful and sad to humorous. The haegeum is made using eight materials: metal, stone, silk, bamboo, gourd, clay, hide, and wood, and so it is called paleum (eight sounds).
  The sohaegeum (소해금) is a modernized fiddle with four strings, used only in North Korea and in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China.
  The haegeum is a Korean musical instrument played with a wooden bow between two lines, standing in line with a large wooden block standing vertically on top of the ring box. The haegeum is a string instrument, but it is classified as a wind instrument rather than a string at the concert. In traditional Korean music, the string instrument refers to an expression instrument that can not be played properly like a geomungo or gayageum, and the string instrument that can be used to make a continuous bow like a haegeum or ajaeng is similar to a wind instrument.
caption: Jung Su-nyun playing haegeum sanjo
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