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RE: Even More out of tune
Title: RE: Even More out of tune
At 1:12 PM +0000 2/6/04, goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote:
i personally am not
interested in using non-diatonic-based tunings
Please be aware that "diatonic" has no
particular relationship to "tuning."
A diatonic scale is simply a set of seven pitches spanning an
octave and corresponding to the white keys on a piano (i.e. a pattern
of semitones 2-2-1-2-2-2-1). You can start the scale pattern on any of
its notes and you can transpose the scale to any of the 12 chronatic
tones. The tuning of the pitches themselves is arbitrary. Therefore
you can have diatonic scales in a variety of tunings, though most of
the time when people say "diatonic" they imply
"twelve-tone equal-tempered" tuning.
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