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• MONOCHORD (Gr. µovb op6ov, rcavwv µovvucos)

MONOCHORD (Gr. µovb op6ov, rcavwv µovvucos)  : med . See also:

• LAT

Lat. monochordum), an See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument having a single See also:

• STRING

string, used by the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Greeks for tuning purposes and for measuring the See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale arithmetically . The See also:

• MONOCHORD (Gr. µovb op6ov, rcavwv µovvucos)

monochord, as it travelled westwards during the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, consisted of a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board, or narrow rectangular See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box, over which was stretched the single string; along the edge of the See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound-board was See also:

• DRAWN

drawn a See also:

• LINE

line divided according to See also:

• SIMPLE

simple mathematical ratios to show all the intervals of the scale . A movable See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge was so contrived as to slide along over the string and stop it at will at any of the points marked . The vibrating length of string, being thus determined as on the See also:

• GUITAR (Fr. guitarre, Ger. Guitarre, Ital. chitarra, Span. guitarra)

guitar, See also:

• LUTE (Arabic al'ud, " the wood "; Fr. luth; Ital. liuto; Span. laud; Ger. Laute; Dut. luit)

lute, See also:

• VIOLIN

violin, &c., yielded a See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note of absolutely correct See also:

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch on being twanged by fingers or plectrum . In See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order the better to seize the relation of various intervals, a second string tuned to the same note, but out of reach of the bridge, was sometimes added to give the fundamental . (K .