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The Kumongo was developed in northern Korea for Korean court music during the fourth century BC. This wooden instrument has six strings and sixteen frets. Sitting cross-legged, the performer holds the instrument in his/her lap and plays the strings with a bamboo plectrum. Traditionally used by Confucian scholars in meditation and for accompanying lyrical songs, it is also played in both classical chamber music and sanjo (solo pieces with a drum accompaniment) .
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