Traditional Musical Instruments
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- 1. Pitched idiophones
- The pyeonjong is a bell-chime with sixteen bronze bells. The pyeongyeong is a stone-chime with sixteen stone slabs. The banghyang is a set of sixteen rectangular iron slabs. The unla is a set of ten round-shaped iron slabs.
- 2. Unpitched idiophones
- The kkwenggari, also called seo, kkaengmaegi, and kkaengsoe, is a small gong. The kkenggari player, called sangsoe, in the farmers’ band music is the leader of the band. The jing is a large gong and punctuates the first beat of a rhythmic cycle. The bak is a wooden clapper made of six pieces of rectangular hardwood slats. The player of the bak, called jipbak, is the leader in court music. The chuk is a wooden box which has a hole in the center with a wooden stick in it. It is placed in east and is played at the beginning of the court ritual music. The eo is a tiger-shaped scrapper. It is placed in west ad is played at the end of the court ritual music. The bu is a clay pot used in the court ritual music.
