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<div>Kevin</div>
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<div>There's plenty of tradition for the leaf. I wrote about this in
my<i> Korean Musical Instruments: A Practical Guide</i> (1988) and
also mentioned it in<i> Bands, Songs and Shamanistic Rituals</i>
(1989/1990).<i> Akhak kwebom</i> shows the leaf and details how to
make and play it as an instrument -- so that takes us back to the 15th
century. There are two commercial recordings available featuring the
leaf: taken from SPs produced between 1929-1950, '<i>Taegum.
T'ungso/ P'ulp'iri ui myongin. Myongin myongch'ang sonjip</i> 8 (Jigu,
JCDS-0472, 1994), and contemporary recordings, '<i>Myongin myongch'ang
4: podul p'iri myongin Pak Sanil</i> (Jigu, JCDS-0613, 1997). The folk
music scholar Lee Bo-hyung also has a huge number of field recordings
featuring the leaf, and I recall, but cannot find a reference for, an
album he put out with his<i> Han'guk koumban yon'guhoe</i> journal
that had some leaf recordings.</div>
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<div>Keith</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>This is going to sound a bit odd, but
i've recently seen some nice video of a Daegum player. He's a pretty
fine player and plays some sanjo type passages on the Deagum and
when he's done he plucks a leaf from a plant and plays Milyang Arirang
on the leaf. I can't say that i have ever seen such a thing. I know
that in some areas there are unusual instruments in some coastal
places and islands like in Cheju-do, etc. But, is there any tradition
of playing the leaf in Korea? Or is this just a goof?<br>
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cheers,<br>
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kevin</blockquote>
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