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Bundengan is a traditional musical instrument from Indonesia. One of its unique features is the ability to produce sound imitating the gamelan, a percussive metallophone. This is generated by plucking on the bundengan strings, which have small bamboo clips attached to them. In this work, the effect of the clip dimension and position on the frequency spectrum of the vibrating string is analysed by means of computer simulation and experiment. The string was modelled using Scilab, taking into account the transversal and rotational vibration of the string and bamboo clip, including air drag force. The height to diameter ratio of the clip can be varied in the model. Furthermore, we set up a bundengan string on a sonometer with no resonator, attached specially made bamboo clips on it, and measured the sound frequency spectrum of the vibrating string. The results showed that increasing the height to diameter ratio of the clip decreased the overtone frequencies of the string. It was also found that the fundamental frequency of the string decreased, but its overtones increased, when the clip is shifted towards the middle of the string. The frequency spectrum from the simulation corresponds well to that from the experiment. |
