Re: (OT) non-octave scales (was Re: various infotaining natlang tidbits)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 17, 2000, 5:13 |
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:37:38 CDT, Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:
>The Wier Minor Scale can be played by detuning E and B by 50 cents and
>starting from D. That results in a pentatonic minor scale with two added
>tones halfway between the two wide intervals.
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>I dunno -- but I am sure glad I ripped the frets out of my bass so I can
>play things like... the Wier Scale!
>
>(Or did somebody already invent that scale?)
http://www.tiac.net/users/xen/scala/modename.html has a huge list of
musical modes from different scales. It gives a name of "Neutral Diatonic
Dorian" for your scale. Whether anyone has ever used this scale to write
music is a different matter.
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