Monochord Learning Hub
Whether you're exploring the Monochord for the first time or deepening your sound healing practice, this is your home for guides, research, artist stories, and community. Explore the articles below — and discover how the feeltone Monochord and MonChair are used by therapists, practitioners, and musicians around the world.
Choosing Your Monochord
New to Monochords? Start here to find the right instrument for your practice.
- Monochord Buying Guide — A comprehensive overview of the feeltone Monochord family: models, string counts, tunings, and how to choose the right instrument for your intention.
- Monochord Beginners Guide — Just getting started? This guide walks you through the basics of playing, tuning, and using your Monochord for the first time. Plus shows you how to replace a string or add the template and bridges for a Monolina
Playing & Using Your Monochord
Technique, application, and creative ways to bring your Monochord into your practice.
- How to Use a feeltone Monolina & Monolini for Sound Massage — A practical guide to using the Monolina and Monolini in hands-on sound massage sessions.
- Bilateral Self-Soothing on Monochord — How bilateral stimulation with Monochord strings can support nervous system regulation and self-soothing.
- How I De-Stress with Monochord — A personal account of using the Monochord as a daily stress-relief practice.
- What's "Projective Dreaming?" got to do with Monochords? — Exploring the connection between deep listening, altered states, and Monochord resonance.
- Can You Play a Sansula ON a Monochord? — A creative experiment combining two of our favorite instruments.
- How the MonChair Plays Well with Other Instruments in C# — How the MonChair's resonance integrates with chimes, kalimbas, and other instruments in ensemble settings.
- Intuitive Beats with Monochord for Conscious Soundscapes — Rachel Nelson demonstrates rhythmic and textural possibilities on the Monochord.
- ASMR Monolina Journey Morning Meditation — A gentle morning meditation featuring the intimate, close-mic'd sound of the Monolina.
- Storytelling on Monolini with Twin Sisters — A touching example of the Monolini used as a vehicle for shared storytelling and connection.
Research & Clinical Evidence
Sound healing and Monochord therapy are increasingly supported by peer-reviewed research. Here are key studies and clinical perspectives.
- "Sound Healing Online: Reduces Pain, Stress and Discomfort with Lasting Effects" — A study published in the Journal of Music and Medicine found that online sound healing sessions produced measurable reductions in pain, stress, and discomfort, with effects that persisted beyond the session itself.
- The Monochord Singing Chair: Resonance in Music Therapy — Clinical observations from Joanne Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center — including case studies on neuropathic pain relief and use with children on the autism spectrum.
- feeltone Monochords Featured on Today.com: Sound Healing Goes Mainstream — Sound healing with feeltone instruments reaches a mainstream audience.
Artist & Community Stories
Practitioners, therapists, and musicians share how they use the Monochord in their work and lives.
- A Music Therapist's Portrait: Christine Stevens, MSW, MA, MT-BC — How one of the world's leading music therapists incorporates Monochord and rhythm instruments into her practice.
- Minna Sivola's Training & Mentoring for Sound Healers — A Finnish sound healer shares her approach to training practitioners in Monochord-based sound work.
- Creating Joy with Rachel Nelson of Conscious Soundscapes — How Rachel Nelson uses feeltone instruments to build community and healing in Alberta, Canada.
- Mallika Paratosh: Finding Intimacy in Sound — A sound practitioner's exploration of deep listening and resonance.
- Robbi K on Instruments & The Spirit of Kwanzaa — How Robbi K brings feeltone instruments into cultural celebration and community music-making.
- Bonus Time Music: Live-Looping with Brandon Blake — Brandon Blake demonstrates live-looping with Monochord and other instruments for layered, immersive soundscapes.
- feeltone KoTaMo: Concert Monochord Meditation with Annette Abraminko — A live meditation concert featuring the KoTaMo (Koshi + Tongue Drum + Monochord) combination.
- How Do You Learn to Play an "Intuitive" Instrument? — feeltone US trainer Joule L'Adara on the philosophy of intuitive music-making and how to get started.
Events & Trainings
Live and online opportunities to deepen your Monochord practice.
- Monochord Monday Meetup — Our free monthly Zoom gathering for the global Monochord community. Join practitioners, therapists, and musicians for live presentations, meditations, and group play.
- Secrets of the Monochord — Level 1 Training — An immersive Level 1 training in the foundational techniques of Monochord sound work.
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In-Person & Live Online Monochord Trainings in NY & LA — Upcoming training opportunities with Joule L'Adara on both coasts.
Intuitive Soundscapes Collections
The feeltone Monochord is the heart of each Intuitive Soundscapes Collection — groups of instruments tuned together so anyone can play. Explore each collection:
- D-Minor Collection — Overview of the D-Minor set. Also: Play Well Together in D-Minor | Personal Tour | Behind the Scenes in Germany
- C-Major Collection — Overview of the C-Major set.
- G-Major Collection — Overview of the G-Major set. Also: Behind the Scenes in Germany
- A-Minor Collection — Overview of the A-Minor set. Also: Behind the Scenes in Germany
Behind the Scenes
- A Spaziergang through the feeltone Workshop — A behind-the-scenes walk through the feeltone workshop in Northern Germany where Monochords are handcrafted.
- The Best Kind of Drones Are Musical Drones — International Drone Day celebration in Marlboro, New York featuring feeltone instruments.