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Musical traditions that make use of equiheptatonic scales include:
Musical traditions that make use of equiheptatonic scales include:
* [[Music of Georgia|Georgian music]]
* Eastern [[Angolan music]]
* Eastern [[Angolan music]]
* Ancient [[Chinese music]]
* Ancient [[Chinese music]]
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For that reason, it might be more fruitful for composers to explore edos with equiheptatonic scales that share those characteristics. that is, after all, its own diverse array of subtly different equiheptatonic scales.
For that reason, it might be more fruitful for composers to explore edos with equiheptatonic scales that share those characteristics. that is, after all, its own diverse array of subtly different equiheptatonic scales.


Such edos include:


Such edos include:


; 1edo to 40edo
; 1edo to 40edo
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From the list it can be seen that edos with this type of equipentatonic scale are often [[runoff]] edos{{idiosyncratic}}, they are often [[dual-fifth edo]]s and they often support [[flattone]], [[flattertone]], or a related temperament. None of these things are always true: just true more often than chance.
From the list it can be seen that edos with this type of equiheptatonic scale are often [[runoff]] edos{{idiosyncratic}}, they are often [[dual-fifth]] edos and they often support [[flattone]], [[flattertone]], or a related temperament. None of these things are always true: just true more often than chance.


== See also ==
== See also ==
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[[Category:7-tone scales]][[Category:7edo]][[Category:Traditions]]
[[Category:7-tone scales]][[Category:7edo]][[Category:Traditions]]
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