[jdontillman]

Yes, of course. I've tuned pianos, so I'm not disagreeing with that.

I'm just struck by the zenlike simplicity of the original question, "What is a Major Chord?", compared to the random bits of technical jibber-jabber that would confuse the hell out of a poor soul who would dare to ask such a question, both in the linked blog post, and the discussion here.

[jefftk]

The motivating question, which I quote at the beginning, was actually: what is a chord? what is a major chord? what is a note? what is a first/fourth/fifth note? is there a 65th note? what is a scale? what is a major scale? what does it mean that a note is of a scale? what does it mean that a chord uses a note? is there a difference between a chord using a note of a scale and not of a scale?

I picked one of them for the title of my post, but I'm trying to answer them all.