Haegeum
Overview
String instrument
A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
, resembling a fiddle
Fiddle
The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
. It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, and two silk
Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from the cocoons of the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity...
strings, and is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow.
The Haegeum is one of the most widely used instrument in Korean music. The Haegeum used in court music to madangnori(ordinary people's music). The Haegeum has two strings, but the range of expression is various.
