Cents: was help with bad tuning...Ric B. Eastern Scale?

[Richard Brekne]

Piannaman@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/15/04 12:15:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes:
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>> there are 12 (not 13) half steps to an
>> octave. A whole step is a whole tone of which there are 8 in an octave. 
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> Uhhh....Rick....I think there is something wrong with this one 
> heah....Eight whole tones in an octave????  Wouldn't that equal 16 
> semi-tones?  What far-eastern scale are you tuning?  INquiring minds 
> want to know...
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> Sorry, couldn't resist <G>

Grin.... Sorry, that should read 7 in all.  Made the same mistake as Don 
did with his 1300 cents.

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> There are six whole steps in an octave, not eight, but they are seldom 
> consulted when tuning a piano and have nothing to do with a major or 
> minor scale or mode.  The whole tone scale is reserved for 20th 
> century composers, jazzers, and dream sequences in cheap movies.  

6 steps doesnt finish the octave. 6 Different notes yes... but 7 to 
complete the octave

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> I think you're trying to point out that there are eight intervals in a 
> diatonic scale, which can be configured in any mode you like, from 
> Ionian, to Locrian (goes from B to B and is musically virtually 
> worthless).

Nope... just counted the last note twice.

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> In an octave, there is a chromatic scale, which is what we are dealing 
> with most frequently as tuners.  Then there is the major scale, which 
> (in C major) consists of whole step/whole step/ half step / whole 
> steps three times / half step.  A mixed bag of major and minor 
> seconds, whole tones and half tones.  
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> Ric, if you're a Tuna, you've been scaled <BIG G>,


hehe... I am scaled on a regular basis anyways... good for ones sense of 
humility.

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> Dave Stahl
>

Cheers, and thanks for spotting !

RicB