Karinding is one of the traditional Sundanese musical instruments from West Java, Indonesia, that was made of bamboo. Sundanese karinding that is classified as idiophones has similar working principle with Jew Harp. There is no published investigation about the acoustic parameters with regard to karinding. This research paper discusses the analysis of 3 Sundanese karinding, using the O and U mouth playing technique formations. The discussion is only focused on the fundamental frequency of the karinding. It is shown that the fundamental frequency of karinding with the O mouth formation is 667 Hz and karinding with the U mouth formation is 444 Hz. It was found that the sound directivity of Sundanese karinding has spread almost evenly in every direction, omnidirectional look alike.
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