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Octachord   Listen
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Octachord  n.  (Also written octochord)  (Mus.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.





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"Octachord" Quotes from Famous Books



... neck of the regulator is the windchest, which supports the principal part of the contrivance, called in Greek the [Greek: kanon mousikos]. Running longitudinally, there are four channels in it if it is a tetrachord; six, if it is a hexachord; eight, if it is an octachord. ...
— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius


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