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On 21 Oct 2026 01:57:20 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> > Per a brief survey of Wikipedia, the particulars are unclear (the
> > oldest indicated text, the Classic of Music, was probably lost in
> > Qin Shi Huang's Ye Olde Cultural Revolution, though fragments have
> > been preserved in later works,) but the guqin goes back a good 3000
> > years, and uses a scale based on the harmonic series - something
> > akin to Pythagorean tuning, if I'm understanding correctly.  
> 
> https://www.masterthescore.com/article/japanese-scales
> 
> South Asia has its own ideas too.
> 
> https://anupamagagneja.com/2021/12/23/thaat/

Oh, interesting - I've read a *little* about Indian scales, but I
hadn't heard of the Japanese ones.