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Sundatang is one of the traditional musical instrument heritage that belongs to the Rungus and Kadazandusun Ethnic groups in Sabah, Malaysia. This instrument has a basic shape of a guitar with two strings and produces melancholic sound when played. The aim of this paper is to study the anatomy, physical and acoustical properties of the instrument....
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... is one of the traditional musical instruments that is popular among the Rungus and Kadazandusun ethnic groups in Sabah (Figure 1). Sundatang which is also known as gagayan amongst the Lotud ethnic in the district of Tuaran. ...
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... of this study is very important to understand the sound characteristics that was produced by the sundatang. As shown in Figure 10, there are six frets installed under the 1 st string, which are perpendicular to the top surface of the sundatang neck. The frets are numbered as 1 st fret, 2 nd fret, 3 rd fret, 4 th fret, 5 th fret and 6 th starting from the nearest fret to the neck of sundatang. ...
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... of the 1 st string at different frets for the four units of sundatangs (A, B, C and D) was recorded and analyzed. The recorded sound shows that the fundamental frequency shifted to higher frequency when the string is fretted at a higher fret number as shown in Figure 11 (as an example for sundatang A) and in Table 4 (frequency analysis of sound of the 1 st string at different frets of the sundatang A). ...
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