octachord

octachord
octachordal, adj.
/ok"teuh kawrd'/, n.
1. any musical instrument with eight strings.
2. a diatonic series of eight tones.
[1750-60; < Gk oktáchordos having eight strings. See OCTA-, CHORD1]

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