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Monferina (It.) (mon-feh-ree'-nah)

Italian peasant dance in time.

Monochord [Gr., monos, one; chorda, string]. An instrument consisting of a single string stretched over a sound-board, on which is a graduated scale giving the proportionate divisions of the string required for the production of perfect intervals. A movable bridge is placed at the points indicated on the scale. The Monochord was formerly used as a means for training the It is now used only for acoustic experiments. ear.