Joseon-era Go boards as musical instruments

[AdamR]

Check out the original post on reddit

Appareantly some historical Korean gobans used to have strings inside, to produce sound when stones were smacked onto them.

Amazingly cool idea

[benjito]

[Groin]

I wonder if it works without using some diamonds stones (,or some iron at least)

[trohde]

Wow, thanks!

I knew before that there had been Go boards with strings inside for making sounds but I had thought they were open.

The video linked to in that reddit post is really interesting:

OBS이것이인생에 소개된 전통바둑판_유진경나무공방

I’d wish the auto-translation were better though. And if I were young again I’d want to be an apprentice of that woodworker master lady, to learn from her