Covering Rock Classics on the Ancient Gayageum 

It's a Chinese zither. Zithers are from China, and to say otherwise is like saying a guitar made in Sweden isn't a Guitar, because it wasn't made in Greece. Yes the Gayageum is a traditional instrument in Korea, but still it's a Chinese zither. It's just a different model specific to Korea.

@@livedandletdie Agreed. You cannot take away historical origins. Gayageum and Koto are variations of the Guzheng. That's a fact. It's like saying a tiger is not from the same ancestry as a cat or an ocelot or a lion. They're not Chinese instruments but variations of the Guzheng which is still a zither family. Because they tweaked it to their own cultural manifestations, the gayageum is a Korean instrument and the Koto a Japanese instrument, but they retain their ancestry from the Guzheng. After all they look and function nearly the same.

@@livedandletdie Not all zithers are from China. There are plenty of them from around Europe. It's just that the ones that look like the 古筝, the 琴 and the 가야금, are from China originally. It's important to remember where they came from yes, but it's not good to disregard the differences of style, sound, and make that makes each distinct.

​@@livedandletdie so its a Korean Chinese zither? why not simplify things and say a Korean zither? btw its called a Guzheng not a a Chinese zither, and it is more akin to saying that a Jouhikko is not a Talharpa. but then again a Jouhikko isn't a talharpa just as a gayageum isn't a guzheng though they descended from a common ancestor. really a zither is a type of instrument that has spread throughout the world with numerous variations. u wouldn't call a Turkish Qanun a Guzheng because they are incredibly different even if they are still zithers. it like a language family. additionally, there is evidence that the oldest zither came from Mycenae and not china though that is not 100% verified.

@@mintyfresh4855 they are similar but different, like low German, middle German, and High German.

you should check her on SoundCloud/RU-vid, this is lit

So am I, I was so surprised to see her here. But that's really good, because she deserves more attention.

faderoseamer exactly what I think. her SoundCloud account has very little "views" and I really think she deserves more

Traduttore Traditore what is her Instagram?

Shut up and the one in China is called guzheng

RBEE 0 youre a gacha player, I see no reason why you have any right to shut them up

@@rbee0856 what does the chinese version of the instrument have to do with this comment you insolent cow?

yes, gayageum is from gu zhen. ikr

문인구 it’s guzheng, what the instrument is called in chinese

Yeeessss, thx.

If your talking about her channel its there :p

TomoyaMemez what? They create the content. If you mean her she is linked

The link to her site is in the text of the description, not in the list of links below.

Shut up and look it up yourself.

Soh LayYee yo, I created Harry Potter after reading this random book, it was by some British author but who cares. It’s mine now.

Amyy B well, except samguksagi is a verifiable historical record, not a random book.

yeah me too... on this video

Somerset I'm never specific enough. I have seen her channel before seeing this video.

Coolguy2002 underated comment

i love how this guy’s name matches his comment LMAO

Karma Vids make that 2 comments

Karma Vids my name jeff

yeah, these kind of channels (trying to build a media company off youtube kind) likes to buy views to boost the brand, they actually loose a lot of money at the beginning, but the view counts allows them to show it to a VC and get really high evaluations, and they then buy more views until the ad & sponsor money breaks even, vox's channel did that too

I think it is regarding RU-vid algorithms rather than viewing bots.

That's actually a common thing I see around RU-vid, it's a reasonable amount of likes and comments given a tiny amount of views. Haven't u ever seen videos with millions of views with only like 5k likes? It's that kinda way.

Actually the ancient one used today is the 정악 가야금 (Jeongak gayageum) which means right music gayageum. The sanjo variant didn't come until later.

Angel028 yeah it is originated from guzheng

Petrichor They never said it wasn't.

There were nor Chinese or Korean as the modern state they are now in that time. In the case of Gayageum, it was used at the time of the Gaya Confederacy. Know this because I am Korean and because is part of my heritage as a Kimhae Kim clan which its roots date back in the time of the Gata Confederacy.

Actually, it's not. Chinese instrument doesn't sound like this. Since it's already been modified, it is no longer Chinese.

And who the fuck cares? The compass, paper, and fireworks are originally Chinese but no one talks about that because no one gives a fuck.

and if it has been modified and used by a culture for more thousands of years, it is no longer "Chinese".

That was for a facebook live. All her others are in landscape

saying the koto, the gayageum, and the guzheng are the same is like saying a bass guitar, a ukulele, and a violin are the same because shape. it's not

aren't they more similar than that

@@howardkurtus7069 Actually if u look at how they are built, played, and used it's easier to see the differences. I'll try my best to differentiate the 3 best known ones: China's 古筝, Japan's 琴, and Korea's 가야금. China's 古筝 is distinguishable by having 21 strings usually, triangular finger plucks, nylon-steel/steel strings, and is tuned to the pentatonic scale of D, E, Gb, A, B. Traditional style of playing is 4 picks on the right hand, but modern style is 4 on both. Style of bending notes is usually noted by bending notes to reach higher notes in a slow motion to give some emotion and quick small presses to make vibrato. Japan's 琴 is distinguished by having 12 or 13 strings for traditional and 25 on modern, rectangular finger plucks, nylon-silk/nylon strings, and is tuned to the pentatonic scale of E, F, A, B, C. Traditional style of playing is 4 picks on the right hand, but modern style is the same but using the left hand to play along with or without picks. Style of bending notes is to bend notes quickly before playing to make a distinct sound and sometimes bending notes down and also doing the same as guzheng with little presses to make vibrato. Korea's 가야금 is distinguished by having 12 or 13 strings on the traditional sanjo and jeongak variants and 21 or 25 for modern variants. No finger plucks are used, silk/silk-nylon strings, and is tuned to the pentatonic scale of D, G, A, D, E, G, A, B, etc. Because there is no picks, the Gayageum is played using the fingers by plucking and flicking, usually in meters of 3/4, 6/8, and 12/8. Also because of not using picks, the Gayageum usually does not incorporate things like the one note repeated quickly that's common in Koto and Guzheng music and the gliss over the all the strings that's also common in Koto and Guzheng music. The modern Gayageum has tried to incorporate that, but it is still hard to do so. Bending notes is very important in Korean music which has a certain bounce to it. Instead of slow/fast deep presses to change the note, the gayageum presses all the way down and back up quickly to make an intense vibrato, but rarely does it do this to actually change the note that is being played.

Bread Doggo proof it

MeridianLights everything came from China...

MeridianLights Korea has its own version of it just like how Japan has its own version of it.

lmao, China existed since 1912.

MeridianLights just like Chinese took Indian martial arts and call it their

shripad hedge Its not indian only shaolin had indian members. It wasnt even founded by indians, they just added their own arts too it.

The original instrument is from china, but korea and japan both adapted it into something else.

then the 400 BC history information is incorrect

There were nor Chinese or Korean as the modern state they are now in that time. In the case of Gayageum, it was used at the time of the Gaya Confederacy. Know this because I am Korean and because is part of my heritage as a Kimhae Kim clan which its roots date back in the time of the Gata Confederacy.

Eunsik Kim you're saying that the instrument is neither of Chinese nor Korean origin but the instrument was founded in the region that is inhabited and claimed by the Chinese/Korean governments?

This type is Korean, there's Koto which Japanese and Gu zheng is Chinese they sound different just like there are many guitars, pianos, violins types

@Bornaking it's called grunge my guy

it's not.

神詩人 I have strong belief that kungfu was broigh to China from India. by boddhidharma

shripad hedge no it wasnt.... He added to the arts at SHAOLIN TEMPLE only. Not all of kung fu, the history of kung fu goes 3 thousand years before bodhidharma.

shripad hedge thanks for the knowledge.🙏

And Spaghetti is from China.

Iggy Tubmen love that ignorance

People may say that instrument is not really GuZheng... they sound totally different... I would tell you that even GuZheng has different versions, and makes. That is just a Korean version. Thank you!

Yang Xie korea was tributary state for qing(which is a manchurian dynasty) and yuan(which is a mongolian dynasty) and yes everybody knows that insturment HAS A CHINESE ORIGIN, BTW the national instrument of korea and japan is the guzheng or gayageum or koto however u wanna call them. Japanese and koreans are tired of hearing the same thing:"This is not from Kor/Jpn this is from china" so if anyone of us play music, does it mean we copied greek culture? If we use a light bulb did we copy american culture? There is something called CULTURAL INFLUENCE and every country has been influenced by another in history. Even china, "chinese ink" shouldn't be called like that 'cause it was invented in INDIA or even chinede abacus was invented in mesopotamia instead of china.

There's something called _cultural influence_ mind you

Yang Xie, almost nobody cares about how many similar aspects gayageum and other similar instruments share and who invented the first instrument with that shape... like almost nobody cares about who invented the guitar or the violin. She is a Korean Gayageum Maestro, not generically a 'pretty Asian (???) girl'. Why so many Chinese from the PRC are so rude and have such a complex of inferiority???