Build your own monochord

There are many ways to experience these tuning experiments. The simplest is to draw a line (representing a string) on a piece of paper (something long and skinny, like receipt paper). You can create the entire tuning on the piece of paper with a pencil and a dividers, but unless you also have a string you will not be able to hear your results. You could make your own monochord by stretching a string between two fixed ends. You could also use a cello, using the distance from nut to bridge as your string length, and slipping the finished tuning on receipt paper under the fingerboard to hear your results.

Whatever you choose for your string, make sure that you measure its length carefully and transfer this to your line. With the line in front of you on the table, mark the leftmost end G Gamut, the lowest note in the medieval tuning system. The right end is the highest end (like a piano keyboard) and the notes will be produced by the shortest string lengths.