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<font size=3>I wondered about the two strings, also. <br><br>
At 10:05 AM 1/22/2004 -0600, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>At 09:56 AM 1/22/04, you
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>The problem right now is that
one<br>
of the 2 strings is missing.</blockquote><br>
Pythagoras had the same problem with his model... hence the
name.
:)</font></blockquote><br>
But from a Google search I did, I found this: <br><br>
<font face="Times, Times" size=3> The monochord
has been created in Sweden in 1829 for accompaniment of spiritual
singing. <br>
Probably through the Lutheran parochial schools, monochord has got to the
Latvian peasants, <br>
and they have begun to play on it, to make it and to improve it <b>(the
same instrument, but with <br>
two strings has been developed).<br><br>
</b> Monochord consists of a long, rectangular body, stuck or
hammered together from wooden plates. <br>
In the upper plate the sound holes are cut and a stepped rod (neck) is
attached, on which <b><u>a string <br>
(or two) is put.<br><br>
</u></b>and from a different site: <br><br>
</font>In order the better to seize the relation. of various intervals,
<br>
<b><u>a second string tuned to the same note</u></b>, but out of reach of
<br>
the bridge, was sometimes added to give the fundamental. <br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Regards,<br><br>
Alan B. Crane, RPT<br>
School of Music<br>
Wichita State University<br>
alan.crane@wichita.edu</blockquote><br>
Thanks. <br><br>
Avery <br>
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