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Strike a cord / chord / accord?

Posted by TheFallen on February 28, 2003

In Reply to: Strike a cord / chord / accord? posted by John on February 28, 2003

: two questions: is it strike a cord/chord or strike accord? and, what's the origin?

It's chord and it's of musical origin, a chord being made of additional resonant frequencies to the main note.

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