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I Got 4 Strings, *****! most chords (no such thing as a bass chord, a chord is a chord is a chord no matter what you play it on) will sound muddy on the lower frets of the lower strings.

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  1. noun Music A combination of three or more pitches sounded simultaneously.
  2. noun Harmony, as of color.
  3. intransitive verb To be in accord; agree.
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  • Kate turned to Pauling and asked, "Do you have children?" —  The Hard War
  • Even though they knew for sure they were due each sentry jumped and ducked each time they arrived. —  The Hard War
  • I Got 4 Strings, *****! most chords (no such thing as a bass chord, a chord is a chord is a chord no matter what you play it on) will sound muddy on the lower frets of the lower strings. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • Just as the chord was at the tightest, just as the feathers quivered, and the barb thrilled, about to leap from the terse string, the tall form of the soldier sprang up into the clear moonlight from the underwood, and crying "Hold! hold!" mastered her bowhand, with the speed of light, and dragged her down into the covert. —  The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)
  • Interplanetary spacecraft? —  A World Out of Time
 

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  1. Alteration (influenced by chord, musical instrument string) of Middle English cord, from accord, agreement, from Old French acorde, from acorder, to agree; see accord.
  2. Alteration of cord.

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  1. Same word as cord (and sometimes, and formerly regularly, so spelled; but the spelling chord, after the L., is now conventionally preferred for the technical senses given below); from Latin chorda, from Greek χορδή, the string of a musical instrument: see cord.
  2. from chord, n. Cf. cord, v.
 

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