@Bobo & @Eksrae Thanks for pointing those out. 
The Yoshida Bros. were great, Iāll have to look into some of their of their other work. Though for my tastes the shamisens got drown out by the other instruments a bit much at times. But maybe Iām just not a fan of that style accompaniment.
The Gayageum playing on the other hand was a really satisfying fusion (IMHO).
Donāt tell Paul Simon you know that.
And it seems like it was DESIGNED with that sort of play that Hendrix had to coax out of the guitarā¦Getting that tremello by adjusting the tension on the other side of the bridgeā¦I wonder if she had to use some sort of alternate tuningā¦
Theyāve got a fair amount of work thatās mostly shamisen with little accompaniment. That one is one of the big flashy/fairly westernized ones that draws people in though .
Well, with a name like āSol Bloomā, Iām pretty sure he had Middle-Eastern roots of some sort, if not of the Arabian kindā¦
That approach has been both formalized and generalized
Just gotta say ā I love this entire thread!
Certainly possible, though Wikipedia says his parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants.
I suspect sheās not tuning the gayageum specially. Most of what she does on the other side of the bridge is less getting a vibrato (tremolo is either a rapid repeat of the pitch or a rapid pulsation of the pitchās amplitude) than sharping the pitch to bring it in tune, although she does add pitch bends and so forth as well. Iām pretty sure that the gayageum is a diatonic instrument, so sheād need to do that to get chromatic notes.
Youāll see it here very clearly, near the end where she adjusts her lowest string in a repeating riff. She isnāt getting a pitch bend or vibrato - the note is coming out pretty cleanly.
Iām not quite sure what sheās doing with her left hand when she takes out her pick and strums - damping some of the strings so that only the chord tones sound, maybe.
I didnāt mean that she was tuning it while playing, I was wondering whether to play western music the gayageum had been tuned differentlyā¦
Dunno, to be honest. I suspect itās going to depend on the musician and the circumstances. The way the gayageum is tuned is by moving the bridges, so itās a case of setting it up early and leaving it during a gig. Iām pretty sure the standard tuning is going to be a heptatonic scale in something closer to just intonation than equal temperament. That can be usable as is with a bit of on-the-fly adjustment (and will sound very sweet in diatonic solo work). Whether she changes to equal temperament for Western music, I donāt know. Itās a little hard to tell with the constant left hand adjustments.
Whether theyāve brought their concert pitch for traditional music to a=440 is something else I donāt know, but that wide-bodied instrument sheās using is specifically for contemporary music, so itās likely that she, at least, has. (The traditional gayageum has either 12 or 21 strings.)
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