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Parts List

  1. One plank 93 mm wide and 20 mm thick from which is sawn,
    Bottom plate, 600 mm long (A),
    2 transverse supports 93 × 60 mm (B1, B2),
    2 longitudinal supports 100 × 60 mm (C1, C2),
    Magnet support 93 × 100 mm high (D).
    and with a cutout 14 mm wide and 55 mm deep
  2. In the magnet support, two magnets stick to two bolts M6×40 mm.
  3. Violin steel G string (196 Hz).
  4. A tuning screw (tuning peg) for guitar.
  5. 2 nuts for guitar (the part, at the top of the fingerboard, over which the string runs through a groove).

Optional optical sensors (typically less than $10 each):

Suppliers:


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Download mono_inst.pdf

``Monochord Assembly Instructions'', by Sten Ternstrom and Ryan J. Cassidy,
REALSIMPLE Project — work supported by the Wallenberg Global Learning Network .
Released 2007-04-09 under the Creative Commons License (Attribution 2.5), by Sten Ternstrom and Ryan J. Cassidy
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA),   Stanford University
CCRMA