| Pyeongyeong | |
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Pyeongyeong being used for performing Jongmyo jeryeak |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 편경 |
| Hanja | 編磬 |
| Revised Romanization | pyeon(-)gyeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | p'yŏn'gyŏng |
A pyeongyeong is a traditional Korean percussion instrument, a kind of stone chime or lithophone formed of sixteen L-shaped stone slabs suspended from a frame. Although all the stones have the same shape they vary in pitch according to thickness; the thinner stones are lower in pitch and the thicker stones produce higher pitches.
The pyeongyeong is derived from a Chinese instrument, the bianqing.
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