Nice.
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/02/22/how-to-enable-the-startup-chime-on-recent-macs/
Works on my 2017 iMac, from the terminal
sudo nvram StartupMute=%00 , %01 to remove!
Happy Days
#happydance !!! Thankfully my MacBook still has it. I don’t even care if people think the chime is weird now. Without the chime it’s not a Mac. LOL