octachord
Americannoun
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any musical instrument with eight strings.
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a diatonic series of eight tones.
noun
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an eight-stringed musical instrument
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a series of eight notes, esp a scale
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Origin of octachord
First recorded in 1750–60, octachord is from the Greek word oktáchordos having eight strings. See octa-, chord 1
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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.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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