<html> <body> List, I've put this on the caut list also, but by the time I left today, had not found out anything. Does anyone know anything about these? One of our theory professors found one in storage here and wants to use it in some of his classes. The problem right now is that one of the 2 strings is missing. Here are some specs: 1 meter (39+") speaking length pitch should be 1 octave below middle C current gage is .029 (12 ga. in piano wire) There is also a movable bridge, so the tension can't be "too" great on it. Does anyone know the appropriate type of wire for this? Harpsichord wire seems like it would be too thin. How about Fortepiano wire? The current string does not seem to be piano wire and I think that would be too heavy for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ====================================================== At 09:56 AM 1/22/04, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>The problem right now is that one of the 2 strings is missing.</blockquote> Pythagoras had the same problem with his model... hence the name.             :) ====================================================== To forestall any further comments about the "monochord" having 2 strings, :-) here's what I found on a Google search. =============================================================== I wondered about the two strings, also. But from a Google search I did, I found this at <a href="http://folklora.lv/muzikas/giga/en.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://folklora.lv/muzikas/giga/en.shtml </a>    The monochord has been created in Sweden in 1829 for accompaniment of spiritual singing. Probably through the Lutheran parochial schools, monochord has got to the Latvian peasants, and they have begun to play on it, to make it and to improve it (the same instrument, but with two strings has been developed).    Monochord consists of a long, rectangular body, stuck or hammered together from wooden plates. In the upper plate the sound holes are cut and a stepped rod (neck) is attached, on which a string (or two) is put. And from a different site: <a href="http://4.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MO/MONOCHORD.htm" eudora="autourl">http://4.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MO/MONOCHORD.htm </a>In 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. Avery </body> </html>