Resizing of the Gayageum for Korean Elementary School Students based on Anthropometric Data
- Title
- Resizing of the Gayageum for Korean Elementary School Students based on Anthropometric Data
- Author
- 김정룡
- Keywords
- Gayageum; String Instrument; Children; Resizing
- Issue Date
- 2013-06
- Publisher
- 일본인간공학회
- Citation
- THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF ERGONOMICS(일본인간공학회지), Page. 520-523
- Abstract
- The aim of this study is to resize the gayageum, a traditional Korean string instrument, for elementary school students
who are not yet adult from the viewpoint of anthropometry. The gayageum has been used for musical education of
elementary school students despite its size is inappropriately large for them. Due to the size disproportion, elementary
school students are forced into uncomfortable playing postures, thereby making the instrument itself more difficult to play.
Consequently, they have suffered from the inconvenience of these unnatural playing postures. In order to resize the
instrument, the postures of expert gayageum players from the National Gugak Center in Korea were photographed and
analyzed. Then we investigated the players’ trunk angle to compare with elementary school -aged players’ postures.
The results yielded an optimal resizing ratio of 0.76 for elementary school students compared with an adult-sized
gayageum. This study suggests that the gayageums redesigned by the ratio of 0.76 would be suitable for players
from 5 to 10- year-old. We expect that this method could be applied to design other kinds of musical string instruments for
young players.
- URI
- https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jje/49/Supplement/49_S520/_articlehttps://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/185729
- ISSN
- 0549-4974;1884-2844
- DOI
- 10.5100/jje.49.S520
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