monochord

ancient musical and scientific laboratory instrument

Class type of: box zither Q1136653

Facts

3 properties

Subclass of: box zither^[1]
Described by source: Riemann's Music Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 314.122^[9]

🏷️ Also known as

en monochord ar أحادي الوتر de Kanon de Polychord el Μονόχορδο es monocordio es monocuerda fa مونو کورد fa مونوکورد fi monokordi fr monocorde he מונוקורד he מונוכורד it monocordo ja モノコード ko 모노코드 pt Manicórdio pt monocórdio ro Monocord ru Канон

🔖 Identifiers · 21

GND ID: 4343588-9
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Monochord2.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID: 300198145
Biblissima authority ID: DDS
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: art/monochord
Encyclopædia Universalis ID: monocorde
Freebase ID: /m/02gzhd
Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID: 160
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID: monokord
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 5094065
J9U entity ID: 987007543396405171
Lex ID: monochord

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Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID: mp2013015479
MIMO instrument ID: 3518, 3516
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 63060070
NL CR AUT ID: ph625521
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID: 3943041
SEKO ID: 00679
Topic's main category: Wikidata item
UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID: mmc
Yale LUX ID: concept/17a7dd3f-9662-43a0-84bc-1c7695d38ef6

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Described by source 2

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

Subtypes 1

lahuta

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Juana I of Castile

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16w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Biblissima authority ID → DDS

"Created claim: Biblissima authority ID: Q298031, Import ID Biblissima V3 (details)"
24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017) → 2228045, 5094065

Subclass of → box zither

Described by source → Riemann's Music Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +1

Topic's main category → Wikidata item

"Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007543396405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"

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