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→'Hoku' Monochord - 22 strings and steel tuning pegs
🌍 Origin: India
📅 Year of manufacture: 2023
📐 Dimensions: ± 180 centimeters long x 22 cm wide x 10 cm high
⚖️ Weight: ± 14,000 grams
🧬 Material: Sturdy plywood ceiling frames - Soft and smooth surface - Wood species used: .Block: oak .Structure / side panels: ash .Trays: Birch .Monocorde Stege: Pear tree
🎶 Sound type: Clear, warm and bright
📦 Packaging: Individually - includes adjustment key and instructions
🎁 Ideal for giving as a gift or treating yourself!
👉 Movable bridge for quick changes of the fundamental tone. Fine tuning with tiger's eye stone beads
The monochord is a wooden body strung with many strings. All the steel strings are tuned to the same pitch.
When played evenly with the fingers, a "standing tone" is created, an intense and harmonious sound field.
Our monochords have very good sound properties and pronounced harmonic sounds.
All the strings pass over a bridge. If you move it, the fundamental tone can be changed at will with one hand.
📋 Fact sheet :
Characteristic
Information
Name
Monochord
Origin
Greek Antiquity (attributed to Pythagoras in the 6th century BC)
Description
Instrument with one (sometimes several) strings stretched over a sound box, used to demonstrate sound and harmonic relationships
Traditional materials
Wood for the body, gut or metal string
Original function
Scientific and educational tool: study of acoustics, musical intervals and mathematical proportions (the famous “Pythagorean harmonics”)
Playing technique
The string is plucked or bowed, and a movable bridge allows the vibrating length to be changed to create different pitches of sound
Sound
Clear, pure, low-pitched sound, close to a zither string
Modern applications
- Still used in musical pedagogy - Contemporary version in music therapy / sound therapy : monochord with several strings tuned in unison to create a relaxing vibratory layer
Symbolism
Universal harmony, link between music, mathematics and cosmos
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