Specifications
- Type: overspun (wound) steel overtone string with ball-end
- Tuning: g
- Length: approx. 80 cm
- Material: steel core with brass winding
- Origin: Germany
- Compatibility: overtone string for MO-21G and MO-34G monochords
Sound and character
This wound overtone string brings back the floating, richly layered sound that characterises g-tuned feeltone monochords. The brass winding gives a full, warm fundamental while the overtones rise cleanly above it. The g base pitch lends a warmer, pleasantly grounding character to the instrument and fits calm, mid-deep meditative and therapeutic soundscapes well.
How to use
Replace the string when it sounds dull, looks visibly worn or has broken. feeltone designs and produces these strings specifically for its own instruments, so to preserve the original sound image you should stay with the factory replacement. To change it, release the old string, remove it, then thread the new one in from the tuning peg side and bring it slowly and evenly up to the g pitch.
Why this product
Because this is the original, factory-matched string that fits the MO-21G and MO-34G monochords. If you want to keep the characteristic voice of your instrument, you should stay with this version, since third-party strings with different gauges and tensions will shift the fundamental.
Care tips
- Tune gradually and avoid pushing past the target pitch.
- Take care: the bare string ends are sharp and can pierce skin when you uncoil the ring.
- Retune more often during the first few days, until the new string settles.
- Sealed, unopened strings can be returned under warranty if the seal is intact.
About Feeltone
Feeltone is a craft instrument workshop in Lassan, northern Germany, founded by Ingo Böhme. For more than two decades the team has been building monochords, sound beds, sound chairs and ceremonial drums for therapists, sound artists and meditation practitioners. Every instrument is hand-built from certified sustainably sourced woods and finished with natural treatments such as hard wax oil.