---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 12/15/04 12:15:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes: > 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. 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... Sorry, couldn't resist <G> 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. 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). 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. Ric, if you're a Tuna, you've been scaled <BIG G>, Dave Stahl > There is only 1200 cents in an octave, not 1300... Don.. you suprise me ! :) > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/23/c9/18/ff/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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