# Why do music chords sound "good"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 21, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-music-chords-sound-good/702016 "2014-10-21T12:00:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![babygoat666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@babygoat666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/babygoat666)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-music-chords-sound-good/702016/14 "2014-10-21T14:02:00Z")

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> [@bob\_2](#):
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> Our brains work in mysterious ways. What sounds good to you, may not sound so great to an oriental and vice versa.

WTF is “an oriental”?

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