Abstract

• Myanmar Bamboo Xylophone (Pattalar) is one of the famous Myanmar fixed-pitch musical instruments, which produce a pleasant sound. Pattalars have their own unique sound with unique parameters different from other musical instruments. The purpose of this paper is to analyzed spectral features of the sound of Pattlar with traditional tuning. The parameters of spectral features such as pitch, harmonics are extracted by short time Fourier transform (STFT). The accurate spacing of harmonic contents and spectral envelope are computed by cepstrum analysis. Then, the frequency contents of signal changes over time are visualized by spectrogram method. The tuning of Pattalar is studied by three different Pattalars with the music scale computed in a logarithmic unit called Cents. The resulting measurements are compared with the pervious measurements data reported by Professor J.West, Professor Dr Maung Maung Kha.