It was the first time I'd recorded without a chordal instrument, and that was a revelation for me.
With four chordal instruments onstage, the sound at times became clotted and busy.
The absence of a chordal instrument in the band gives the threesome great harmonic freedom.
In 2009 Honing forms an acoustic band with a chordal instrument for the first time!
This group once seemed to sound as open as it did because it lacked a chordal instrument.
All those chordal instruments could layer powerful drone textures, but nothing was ever monolithic.
It also presumably requires chordal instruments to realize the continuo in the two vocal airs, although none is mentioned in the livret.
He also has the chance to rove far afield, since there is no chordal instrument to establish the harmonies.
Having two chordal instruments comp at the same time is difficult to do well.
Designed as a fully polyphonic chordal instrument, it can also cover several of these musical parts simultaneously.