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“The geomungo was a ‘hip’ instrument and the most popular among noblemen 500 to 600 years ago. And such appreciation is returning today,” said Shin Ji-hee, a 29-year-old player of the ...
Jisoo takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the internet's most searched questions about herself. What is Jisoo's favorite Blackpink song? Can Jisoo play the geomungo? Can she speak ...
Geomungo Factory uses a variety of improved Korean zithers — from left are cello geomungo, chulhyungeum, portable electric geomungo, steel-string gayageum and 25-stringed gayageum. The beauty of ...
For a true sense of the diversity of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival’s programming, take a listen to Geomungo Factory’s latest release, Imago. This is not your everyday folk music—but it ...
The geomungo—the Korean six-stringed fretted zither—is one of the oldest string instruments in the world, the combination of paulownia and chestnut wood body and twisted silk strings dating to the ...
Geomungo Factory — on their first trip to the UK — fuse ancient and modern like nothing we have here. The geomungo is a 1,000-year-old Korean zither, plucked with a stick.