This is done in the doctor's office to look down the throat at the voice box and vocal chords.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

For example, four musical chords are repeated in this work.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Reinhardt played guitar chords with just two or three fingers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

But,he'd rather be coaching them on chords and tempos.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11