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Re: "skyler S."

🔗Eduardo Sabat-Garibaldi <esabat@xxxxxx.xxx.xxx>

2/5/1999 1:25:31 PM

> Hello all ye tuning wizards.
> I'd like to ask what your definition of the Diatonic set (scale) is, ...

The word diatonic comes from Greeks and means "by tones". If we assume that "a
tone" is both 9/8 or 256/243, working whith the rows of fifths, the FIRST TIME that
it appears this -UNICS- interval for two contiguous notes is seven notes. The
pentatonic scale has two m3, the hexatonic has only one m3, and the heptatonic has
their elements (notes) separated to the contiguous by 9/8 or 256/243.

Eduardo