Bruno,
> This was interesting but at the same time
> misleading because shakuhachi music and even the shakuhachi are not
> based on scale.
What? No notes? The concept of an octave was/is nearly universal and
certainly the Japanese recognized it as octave is inherent in the excitation
of any flute. Anytime you've divided an octave in any way you've got
notes--thus a scale. That's what the holes do. Are you saying they didn't
use any scale at all or that they didn't use 'our' scale? If they didn't use
any scale (i.e. notes) how was pitch determined?
Nelson
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