Junggeum

The junggeum (also spelled chunggum or chunggŭm) is a medium-sized transverse bamboo flute formerly used in traditional Korean music. Unlike the larger daegeum, it does not have a buzzing membrane (although it did have one in ancient times).[1] It was used in court, aristocratic, and folk music, but has largely died out, being rarely used today.

Junggeum
Hangul
중금
Hanja
Revised Romanizationjunggeum
McCune–Reischauerchunggŭm
Top a daegeum, in the middle a junggeum, to the right a piri.

Other flutes in the same family include the daegeum and sogeum; the three together are known as samjuk (hangul: 삼죽; hanja: 三竹; literally "three bamboo"), as the three primary flutes of the Silla period.[1] Both of these are still used in traditional music, as well as in contemporary classical music, popular music, and film scores.

See also

References
  1. "문예진흥원 홈페이지". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007.


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