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From: ebs@mcnc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Alternate scales
Message-ID: <1735@mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 11:32:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 15 11:32:43 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 13:40:07 EDT
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    The suggestion that a particular tempered scale (not 12 notes) would sound
"horrible" just because it doesn't match the LIMITED system which westerners
have used for a few centuries is, at best, narrow-minded. Another scale may
sound different or weird, but there is no absolute standard of horrible.
    I would wager that a number (besides 12) could be found which would
produce as interesting music as the 12 note scale. I'll agree that it's
probably not 16, but that's as far as I'll go.
    For an idea of what alternate scale music may sound like, listen to
some Persian music. On the American side, listen to Marion Brown's
"Geechee Recollections" (not punk, but jazz).
                               ebs (uncc)