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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3347045, member: 19463&quot;]It might be a bit much to assume that all Greek musicians even played with the same tunings or recognized any need to play chords, use 12 tones or octaves as we define them. Even if you have a treatise explaining tunings, it does not rule out other options.&nbsp; Perhaps you recall how &#039;wrong&#039; it sounded to your &#039;normal&#039; ears when you first heard 12 tone Western or any form of Eastern music.&nbsp; Do we even know that these instruments were played singly?&nbsp; Today&#039;s handbell choirs play chords all the time but they use more than one human ringer to get more than two notes at a time.&nbsp; Like everything else having to do with antiquity, we can learn more if we avoid assuming things obvious to us but not to the people from &#039;back then&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t carry a tune in a bucket.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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