Yes, OK, it takes at least three notes for a "chord," but then is there also a name for a two-note thing like Jeri describes, or like I pluck on my plucked psaltery? Because whatever it would be called, there is surely a major one and a minor one. One note would be the melody note and the other would be a harmony note, but they have a distinct character sounded together.

And if neither of these two notes is the melody, but is played accompanying the melody, then whatever note IS being played or sung in the melody would provide the the third note, and so we're back to a chord being there, but the voicing of it is broken up among more than one person....

It would be handy to know how to refer to this with other players, or to know what they have meant when they have referred to it and I have not understood...

~Susan