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SPLAT
Bungkau
Jaw harp
- People
- Kadazandusun
- Family
- Jaw harp
- Also called
- Bungkao · Turiding
- Region
- To verify
- Material
- Polod palm · Bamboo case
- Player
- To verify
- Maker
- To verify
- Capture
- Gaussian splat
- Consent
- Not yet recorded
Recordings
No recordings are published for this instrument yet.
In context
A single lamella cut from polod palm, held against the teeth and plucked. The palm produces almost no volume on its own — the sound is made in the player's mouth, which is shaped to pick out one harmonic at a time. It is a private instrument, historically played close to the face and heard only by whoever is nearby.
Community quotes not yet recorded
Shown in English · switch language in the header
Measured tuning
Intervals have not been measured off the recordings yet. Until they are, this instrument is not voiced in the sound machine — we will not substitute an equal-tempered guess.
Cite it
Cite it
[TO VERIFY WITH KNOWLEDGE HOLDERS] (performer). “Bungkau” — Jaw harp. Kadazandusun community, [TO VERIFY WITH KNOWLEDGE HOLDERS], Sabah, Malaysia. Rua Kita Sound Archive, Far Out Solutions. https://ruakita.my/archive/bungkau Accessed 2026-07-28.