Dudes and dudesses, don’t you know? When luthiers started making Irish bouzoukis and the reinvented cittern, they realised that they had no descriptive terminologies for the qualities of sound unique to those instruments. Hence: ping, thrum, and chorng. “Ping” and “thrum” were already available words that fit nicely, and someone came up with the brilliant, worthy, and amusing “chorng”.
I just replaced the bridge on my gizmo. It now has increased ping, the thrum is more backgrounded, velvety-like, and the chorng seems about the same, but cleaner insofar as it is possible for chorng to be clean. It was nice before, but it’s very nicer now. We like it. And my consciousness thus expanded, you see the result in my signature.