Re: [tuning] Digest Number 3511

According to Jim French , who actually makes wind instruments , many which use bone, states that these instruments were not flutes at all , but reed instruments. the reconstructions fudged to suit their purpose. For those who remember the set of bells which claimed showed that it Chinese invented the major scale, the measurements do not support this at all!
The Chinese still do not use heptatonic scales for the most part

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> From: "Yahya Abdal-Aziz" <yahya@melbpc.org.au>
>Subject: Re: Significance of the 5-fold shruti classification
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>>nature, number, and distances -- be derived authentically?
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>I'm not sure that it can, that is, by incontrovertible scientific
>methods, unless we discover appropriate physical proofs. The best
>such evidence we have for ancient tunings is the remarkably ancient
>(11,000+ years BCE) bone flutes found in China.
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