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  • The mugo is a drum which is used to perform court festive dance "mugo." The manufacturing is same as the daego, but the drum is put on the frame and one head faces upward and hit. During the early Joseon period about 1493, eight mugo were arranged to dance "mugo." Each drum siginifies four directions and differentiated with a circle colored in four different colors, that are blue, red, white, and black

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  • Dance drum

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  • 2019-03-05

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  • to be translated (en)

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http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentsKeywords/11360

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