Pop band "Apples in Stereo" plays with non-Pythagorian scales

This is neat: http://www.applesinstereo.com/pythagorean.php
This may be a well known scale, not sure.

Prent Rodgers

I'm finding it hard to understand what the scale is about, and also what its uses are (especially when the guy on the video is talking about trying to find patterns) - of course if they make good music with it that's "useful" enough!

Cheers for the link, 'twas interesting and confusing.

Sean

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "prentrodgers" <prentrodgers@...> wrote:
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> This is neat: http://www.applesinstereo.com/pythagorean.php
> This may be a well known scale, not sure.
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> Prent Rodgers
>

I think the maths on the Apples In Stereo page is a complete mess, but if I ignore almost everything they've written and stick with the function F=K ln n, then I seem to get the scale they're talking about. It seems to me that the "Wild Thing" of their scale could be Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple or a tune by 808 State that goes G G F# Eb C, since you can play both riffs with the 1st 5 notes of their 12 note scale. The complete infinite scale has all the natural harmonics. It just happens to have lots of other notes added in between. You could find all the notes for the chords of Wild Thing in just intonation in their scale. The last note you need would be shortly after the 35 trillionth note in their scale. More reallisticly, the third octave of their scale has more notes in than most people need.

> > This is neat: http://www.applesinstereo.com/pythagorean.php