Pythagoras Monochord: Understand Intervals, the ancient Greek Way

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“There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.” - Pythagoras (ancient Greek philosopher)

Pythagoras is considered to be among the founder of the Musica Universalis, also known as Music of the Spheres or Harmony of the Spheres. It is an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies —the Sun, Moon, and planets— as a form of music. This "music" is not thought to be audible, but rather a harmonic, mathematical, and religious concept.
What Pythagoras and his pupils (known as Pythagoreans) were trying to do, was to "construct the whole universe out of numbers", as Aristotle once wrote. And to explore that theory, and to teach it to his students, Pythagoras invented a... musical instrument! How "ancient Greek" does this sound to you?
This is exactly what this video is about: let's dive into his theory (a quite mystical part of ancient Greek music) by using an amazing replica of an ancient Monochord of Pythagoras, handcrafted by the skillful hands of the LUTHIEROS family!

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// About LUTHIEROS Monochord
This is a replica of the Monochord of Pythagoras, named after the famous Greek philosopher from Samos, who reinvented it during the sixth century B.C. As Aristotle once wrote, “the Pythagoreans construct the whole universe out of numbers”, and this is why “music, mathematics, and astronomy were inexorably linked in the monochord” (Siemen, 1993).
The monochord is an ancient sonometer, musical, and scientific laboratory instrument that is ideal to demonstrate the relationship between the frequency of the sound produced by a plucked string, and its length. “With its single string, movable bridge and graduated rule, the monochord straddled the gap between notes and numbers, intervals and ratios, sense-perception and mathematical reason” according to Dr. Creese, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.
LUTHIEROS Monochord of Pythagoras consists of a rectangular soundbox with a wooden soundboard, one fixed bridge, and one movable bridge, along with a single gut string. According to modern lyre instructors, it is the ideal educational instrument to deeply understand how the harmonics are produced. What’s more, it is an excellent pedagogical tool for demonstrating mathematical relationships between intervals.

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