Saeng Hwang, the instrument I find most mystical and other-wordly of all Korean instruments,
is a wind instrument made of 17 bamboo pipes; a prototype of the pipe organ.
In this video Hyo-Young Kim is playing saeng hwang with a singer, the piece is aptly called
A dear friend, Jaron Lanier explains how this instrument is actually the origin of computers in his TEDxSF talk, and he plays the Lao cousin of saeng hwang, the Khaen.
This 40-day Virtual World Tour of Music correlates with the World Music House kickstarter crowdfund. (Click the orange words for more details!)
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