Re: Some ideas for a completely tonal conlang

Fredrik Ekman wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
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>>Well, the most obvious question here: does this language use some kind
>>of scales (like our twelve chromatic tones, or perhaps 31 or 54 or
>>1200...)?
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> Most definitely, yes. Although at this point I am not in a position to be
> more specific than that. I doubt if it would be a normal seven-tone major
> or minor scale, though. Possibly a chromatic scale, possibly a pentatonic
> scale, possibly something completely alien.
If you want to go "alien", there's always the Bohlen-Pierce scale, which
has 13 tones and treats an interval of a perfect 12th rather than the
octave as "identity". It would also fit your idea of having a pitch
range of about an octave and a half. Here's a site about it:
http://members.aol.com/bpsite/