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 * P'yon-gyong *
The left of a instrument is called P'yon-gyong. This instrument, known as the bianqing in Chinese, consists of sixteen L-shaped jade slabs hung from a wooden frame. It has been used in Korean court music, since the Koryeo Dynasty (918-1392). The pitch is determined by the thickness of the stones.The instrument is similar to the frame-of-bells in the arrangement of the sixteen slabs according to pitch, but its ornamentation is different. The wooden lions at the base are replaced by white geese and the dragon heads by phoenix heads. The geese symbolize the clear sounds made by this instrument. |
 * Heageum *Haegeum is a stringed instrument played by rubbing a bow between two strings. Haegeum is made by facilitating all of the eight materials used in making musical instruments. The eight materials are called the Eight Sounds: metal, stone, string, bamboo, cloth, clay, leather, and wood. |
 *Dangbipa *Dangbipa is one of the Chinese instruments, and is also called a sahyeonbipa or gokgyeongbipa. This stringed instrument is similar to the mandolin of the West, although it hasfour pairs of strings with 12 notes, and its neck is curved outwardly by 45 degrees. |
 *Younggo *Yeonggo is an eight-sided drum made by suspending a group of eight yellow-colored small drums on a frame. Along with yeongdo, it was incorporated into the Sajik of Gangsinak, which is the memorial service for the god of the earth. The eight sides of this drum coincide with the Eight Achievements of Yeongsinak in the memorial service. |
 *Taepyeungso *Taepyeongso is one of the wooden wind instruments, but its trumpet-shaped end is made of copper. It's also called hojeok, swaenap, soina, swaena, cheoljeok and nalanri. Originally used by the Chinese-Moslems, this musical instrument was imported during the late Goryeo Dynasty. |
 *Nagak *Nagak is a wind instrument made of a large conch horn. It¡¯s often called sora or godong (Korean terms for conch), and is made of a large natural conch shell that grows in the Namyang region. A hole is punctured at the tip of the conch, into which a mouthpiece is fitted, |
 *Daegeum *Daegeum is a musical instrument similar to jing. It was utilized in the jeongdae-eop, which is memorial service music played for aheon (the second offering of liquor during a memorial service) and jongheon (the third and last offering of liquor during a memorial service) during the Royal Ancestral Shrine services. |
 *Soh *Soh is one of the types of piri. It's also called bongso or baeso. There was the soh with 12 pipes with a 12-rhythm, and the sacheongseong-soh with 16 & 24 pipes also utilizing 12-rhythm, Although the soh used in Korea is the phoenix-shaped soh with 16 pipes. |
 *Pyeonjong *Pyeonjong was originally one of the metal percussion instruments with a fixed tuning. Used in court music, it is made by hanging 16 pieces of bells on a frame. When it was first imported from the Sung Dynasty during the Goryeo Period, it had both the jeongseong (the Four Tunes of a 12-scale) and jungseong (12-scale). |
 *Unra *Unra is one of the metal percussion instruments. This instrument with a fixed tune is also called uno or guunra, and is made by hanging 10 dish-shaped brass gongs onto a 10-column frame. A wooden hammer is used to play the gongs. |
 *Yonggo *Yonggo drum is equipped with a cord tied to either side of the body, so that a player may drape it across their shoulder while beating it with two drumsticks. It was usually integrated with the music of a daechwita. |
 *Jwago *Jwago is a two-sided drum placed on a square frame. Using a drumstick, it¡¯s played in loud musical performances such as in dance music, wind and string instrument concerts, and wind music concerts. Jwago is used for the first beat or strong beats. |
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