RE: Even More out of tune

[asterion@hell.com]

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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