hex|a|chord

hex|a|chord
hex|a|chord «HEHK suh krd», noun. Music.
1. a diatonic series of six tones which, in medieval music, had an interval of a half step between the third and fourth and of whole steps between the others.
2. an instrument having six strings.
╂[< Late Greek hexáchordos < hexa- (< héx six) + chord string, chord1]

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