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Saturday, October 9th, 2010

Dance Music Instruments

Korean musical instrument making skills

The capital of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, Yanji City, met festivals, often with fellow Korean musical instruments can be seen singing and dancing scenes. Dozens of people, hundreds of people together with singing and dancing, large-scale, exciting ... ... Korean song and dance, often inseparable from the instruments around them. My friend Kim Ji-feng is the famous Korean musical instrument masters, state-level intangible cultural heritage of Korean musical instrument skills successors.

Kim Ji-feng in 1937 was born in Yanji two east of the river in a small village. House was originally a medical family, my grandfather drove a small clinic, the father will not only see a doctor, or a carpenter, always looking for medicinal herbs, go see a doctor gives. Family travel extensively, are like the singing and dancing. At that time, musical instruments are expensive, generally people can not afford to buy, my father often hand-made instruments to the children. Kim Ji-feng is the youngest at home, childhood habit of following his father learn to musical instruments. Chinese medicine in the main industry is the family, if the school level which amount to "engage in honest work." Gradually, the father found his son three "heart elsewhere to make." Every time the mountain herbs, Kim Ji-Feng are ready to book two: one is the father to band dedicated to the collection of medicinal plants; the other is secretly prepared his own, specialized collection of branches, wood chips, record what kind of wood can be what kind of instrument.

One day, his father led him into the Changbai Mountain Lane 14 Erdaogou hillsides where many types of herbs. His father told him while walking said: "The monsoon, which is Acanthopanax ... ...," he recorded in his book on the "This is the 'fat' (note the 4)!." My father pointed to a plant, said, "This is Angelica ... ...," he recorded in his notebook on the "This is the 'West' (note the 7)!."

Come back later, his father found his little book, a rage, is to beat him up, he was precisely out of the name and role of various types of medicinal herbs. Even more surprising is that, Kim Ji-feng at the same time remember what Changbai wood inside to do the most appropriate instrument. His father is really no way to get him. His mother support the third child, she said to her husband: "You learn life medicine is still a 'poor', the son is willing to Gansha, you let him Gansha it."

With my mother's support, Kim Ji-Feng began to learn a musical instrument start with ourselves. Brother, Kim Kyung-soo loved the violin since childhood, but no money to buy. He lived for others working to earn money to buy one, let no one touch, but then there is life at home sick older brother, reluctantly forced to sell the violin. Kim Ji-feng to the older brother did a violin, even though look ugly, but the "sound" good. Brother pulled his brother, shed a tear.

Kim Ji-feng to do a variety of musical instruments, large, small, long, flat, hung the walls of his house. Although not a decent, but easy to use, in the village of villagers and students often ask him to be. These instruments do they never too coarse, you get one, he took one. In this way, he will do his reputation for musical instruments are also spread in the village.

Flash graduated from high school, he went to county national high school to the school, and before leaving that day he told his father: "put the drum surface Xiaomao send me." My father had once done by hand side of snare drum. At that time, my father will not be cooked leather, then with a hair on calfskin also kept in a snare drum on. But his father could not bear to throw, has been used at home. Father knows his son's mind, touched his head and said: "The monsoon, you have to do bar on Gansha! Abadji (father) to support you! Of all people should have their own musical instrument divisions." In this way, his embrace of the kept trained on surfaces with a hair snare drum in his father's look of hope in leaving his home.

Kim Ji-feng in the county of national high school graduation, went to the Han school of Yanbian school after graduation, assigned to Yanji county agricultural school as a teacher. Because of his excellent study, Chinese and good, so the school is preparing to further promote him, but his heart always "want to" the instrument.

That year was 1958, he was 21 years old, when the teacher has a half-year. On this day, he suddenly presented to school leaders: "the teacher had improperly." Surprise School Leadership, said: "was about to mention you do!" He said: "No." School Leadership said: "ready to send you to training in Beijing !, "he said:" do not. "" You are such a good treatment or not? Are you crazy? "But Kim Ji Fung" possessed "a camel to go.

He went straight Yanji musical instrument. This yard was established in 1953, was only three individuals. In the north-east during the reign of Yanbian Puppet here everywhere in Japan, and Western musical instruments shop, but no one is the local open. Korean Kim Ji-Feng determined to get off his own musical instrument. From then on, he led the workers began the long development of the national long-distance musical instruments.

The northeast in winter is very cold. He was the first to come to class every day to work, Yanbian musical instrument of all instruments are his personally designed. He said he will be remembered even in his dreams like a variety of musical instruments.

Kim Ji-feng who likes to explore, he transformed the heart of many musical instruments, to make them more in line with the needs of Korean Music. For example 12-string gayageum, every chord under a piano to do with the Zaomu code looks like geese toes, so called "goose foot." However, the former Gayageum the first and 12th a "goose foot" (Qin yards) are sidelined, while a number of Korean folk songs such as "Ping, North Yongbyon Song", these are often a treble to a sudden "jump" out, which sidelined the qin yards on the bomb not see that this tone. Kim Ji-feng is determined to transform Gayageum.

He first conducted a detailed non-governmental survey: Gayageum what it was like in ancient times, and now how has become such. After visits to three provinces in the northeast, and later to find experts, Then he will understand is that the ancients to Gayageum the "goose foot" misplaced, "goose foot" step aside and make the voice of Qin restricted volume not get out. If the "goose foot" does not step aside, pop-up to the sound is not only a wide range, but it nicely, so he Gayageum reformed. He would not let "goose foot" step aside, and the addition of a string. The use of the ancient Gayageum pentameter France, the Korean Peninsula, Mongolia, Vietnam are so pentameter law, there is no "4" (hair) and "7" (West). Kim Ji-feng with a string, you can pop-up "4" (hair) and "7" (West) of the. Later, some experts believe that the volume of Gayageum rich enough, so Kim Ji-feng has created a 21 string gayageum, and later developed into a 25 string. Gayageum the hands of gold monsoon gained magical life.

Nearly 60 years production of the national musical instrument making career, Kim Ji-feng along the way, feeling deep. He said: make musical instruments, to "song" in mind, "sound" in the hands of "feeling" in the tools. People to do is to musical instruments, musical instruments, is the solidification of the "Song." In doing, had been "see" into its future: it look like? It will issue What was that? Those who do not love each instrument a good instrument, but also love to do every one "bad" instruments. On one occasion, they have done bad a group of "Haegeum" disciples these Haegeum thrown into the garbage, the garbage truck was transported away. Kim Ji-Feng obstinately chase them back. He said: "bad Qin also useful as reference, we have to refine them."

Kim Ji-feng nurtured by decades of effort the musical instrument, and now is the important production base of Korean musical instruments, mass production of dozens of classes each year a variety of specifications of Korean musical instruments, even the Japanese and the Korean peninsula on a musical instrument specialists, groups, and individuals, are custom-made instruments here. Kim Ji-feng's apprentice is also up to 100 people. In 2006, he was recognized as China's Ministry of Culture of Korean musical instruments produced by transmission of the intangible cultural heritage of people.

Kim Ji-feng said that for decades he has not done a "satisfactory" musical instruments, he has a higher pursuit and objectives. Now, he and his colleagues determined to make "Little Gong" and "gong" to rescue the production of art excavated. Small gong gong belongs to China and Korean World Heritage Project "Agricultural Dance" in the necessary instruments, and now all imported. Kim Ji-feng over seventy years of age, are constantly trying, determination must take this "craft" back.
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Music Instrument games to play with kids?

A friend and I are running a music and dance program for kids with disabilities and need more games that involve music instruments that aren't too hard and are really fun! Does anyone have any ideas or know of any games? thanks so much.

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