These scientists explored the good vibrations of the bundengan and didgeridoo

Enlarge / The bundengan (left) began as a combined shelter/instrument for duck hunters but it is now often played onstage.Utrezz0707/CC BY-SA 4.0 There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: the surprisingly complex physics of two simply constructed instruments: the Indonesian bundengan and the Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo (or didjeridu).

The bundengan is a rare, endangered instrument from

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