Meanings of monochord in anglès

Tymbals to be played like the monochord, or the soft flute.

In your monochord there is no melody.

He invented a curious monochord, which was not less accurate than his clocks in the mensuration of time.

How soon keys were added to the monochord, as this measuring instrument was named, cannot positively be ascertained.

In every place rose the sound of lyre and drum and shepherd's pipe, bagpipe, psaltery, cymbals, monochord, and all manner of music.

Before the piano-forte came the harpsichord, prior to the latter the spinet, then the virginal, the clavichord, and monochord; before these, the clavieytherium.