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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1After submitting to this torture for a long time, the poor king asked that the musicians be taken away, but his sense of the courtesy the visiting official had attempted, induced him to base his request upon the plea that the men had played long and must now be tired, while a supper had been prepared for them and was at that time awaiting their attention. The admiral was equally courteous, however, and would not hear to the men being tired and ordered them to continue playing. The situation was finally made clear and the men were called off.
3The king showed his sense of humor, however, by paying off the compliment in kind, for he sent his loudest band of music, that known as the military band, to serenade the admiral at three o'clock the next morning, and gave orders that the musicians should be similarly placed as had been those at the palace. Now the admiral was unable to retire until after midnight and, in order to catch the tide, he would be obliged to leave the American Legation at four o'clock the next morning. Just as he was dropping off to sleep, this wretched music started up in a little courtyard off his bedroom, and the courtesy he had shown the king was fully repaid in kind.
5While Korean music differs so greatly from our own, the natives soon master our system of music, as was seen recently when a German musical instructor succeeded after three months' training in having a band of Korean musicians perform creditably the national airs of the countries represented in Korea. These men had never seen a foreign musical instrument before they entered upon their period of instruction.
7Korean bands of music are made up of varying numbers and of different instruments. An ordinary band, such as may be seen and heard at festive gatherings, will consist of a flute, two fifes, a stringed instrument of the nature of a violin and two drums. One of these drums will be of the hourglass pattern, the operator tapping the head with his fingers. The "violin" is merely a long stem passing through a hol-
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