Talk:Buk (drum)

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The drum depicted in the photo is not a buk. It's some other kind of drum. I think a buk has laced heads, not tacked, and there aren't paintings on a buk's skin. Badagnani 03:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've done some checking and it seems that the indigenous Korean term buk can simply mean drum (equivalent to Sino-Korean go). However, the term doesn't usually seem to be used in reference to the drums used in court music like the jwago, etc. The most commonly found buk are the samul buk (used for samulnori) and the pansori buk (used for pansori), neither of which have painted heads. Both are viewable here: http://www.ureuk.or.kr/htm/musical08.php So it would probably be best to use one of these two to represent buk for this article. Many of the other drums (strangely, not including any drum called buk) are also viewable here: http://www.ureuk.or.kr/htm/musical08.php Badagnani 04:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)