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2/2/1999 11:17:41 AM

At 10:31 AM 2/2/99 -0800, you wrote:
>From: "skyler S." <skylerlook@yahoo.com>
>
>
>Hello all ye tuning wizards.
>I'd like to ask what your definition of the Diatonic set (scale) is,
>assuming you would consider it to be
>independant of a specific tuning scheme.
>
>Thanks!

Not being an expert in tuning and temperament, I could be wrong...
It seems to me that a diatonic set is a seven-pitch class (+ octave)
subset of the chromatic set in which all intervals are "seconds" of
some sort -- of which there are several "modes".