"Strike a chord" or "strike a cord"?

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The Lonely One

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As a guitarist, I would agree.

A chord is a combination of single notes that are in a single key. The sound it produces means the notes have successfully been combined to create a consonant sound. It's a connection that is made.
 

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Makes sense?

Would agree?

Holy cow! Would someone lock this thread, which was accurately answered by the first post, two minutes after the original question was posed.
 

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Probably. :Hug2: It's not unknown for us old guys to get in one side and fall out the other.
 
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Damn! I thought I'd filled that hole in the ceiling. You quit spyin' on me, you dirty old man! :rant:

Might have gotten hurt, too, if he hadn't landed on that cheerleader.

:)
 

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I have to side with Bufty on this issue.

There's nothing wrong with an expert on music (or firefighting or weapons or quilting) backing up another. What I find counterproductive are the gratuitous and very often wrong opinions and guesses offered.

That and pretending the question hasn't already been answered and other self-serving agenda.

Chase, crawling back in bed to find the other side.
 

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I agree with Lisa. If strike a chord doesn't make much sense, think about this: a piano is a percussion instrument.
 
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I agree with Lisa. If strike a chord doesn't make much sense, think about this: piano is a percussion instrument.

Prawn hammers his point down to the wire.

But I axe you this, do I strike a cord when I split firewood? Just kidding. Sorry.
 

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"Strike a chord" is an old idiom, and since the earliest attestation is to a harp, it does make sense when we think about it a bit.

Keep in mind that in stringed instruments when you play a chord, you strike it or strum the strings--it's a percussive act, forcing the strings to vibrate. Think about the line in the Christmas carol: "Deck the Halls"--"Strike the harp and join the chorus."
 

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I googled BOTH phrases, and each had substantial hits to them. (Thus I came here.)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="strike+a+chord"&aq=f&oq=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="strike+a+cord"

Now I admit that "chord" had about 15 times more hits than "cord." But "cord" still has a fan following out there (a fan club quite possibly composed of lots of bad typists).


To be fair to the Strike a Cord search, the first lot are all either people asking the same question, obvious misspellings ( I mean if they are talking about music it's definitely chord) or people talking about corduroy, which I somehow doubt is the subject for your question :)

Whereas the Strike a Chord search has dictionary definitions in teh first few.

A dead give away
 

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It is chord.

Go look it up in real dictionaries instead of using the internet.
 

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I don't get it. Did I piss someone off?

Strike that, I don't give a shit even if I did.(or should I say "strike that chord").
 
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I see what's needed here is some scarletpeaches clarification magicks.

The correct answer is:

CHORD.​

Shut the shit down on this thread, yo.
 
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