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== Other tunings ==

* The [[Wagogo music|Wagogo]] people of central Tanzania use a [[pentatonic]] scale. Instruments include: [[kalimba]], harp, fiddle, [[marimba]], hand drum. Vocals tend to have parallel harmonies, singing at a distance of a [[penta-third]]. Hukwe Zawose is a well-known Wagogo musician.

* The [[Wagogo music|Wagogo]] people of central Tanzania use a [[pentatonic]] scale that has been described as being based on harmonic 4 to 9.<ref>Kubik, G. (2010). Theory of African Music, Volume I (Vol. 1). University of Chicago Press.</ref> Instruments include: [[kalimba]], harp, fiddle, [[marimba]], hand drum. Vocals tend to have parallel harmonies, singing at a distance of a [[penta-third]]. Hukwe Zawose is a well-known Wagogo musician.

* The Makua people have also been described as using harmonics 4 to 9. The Makua allegedly use the notes 8:9:10:12:14:16 as more of a "true" pentatonic scale than for the Wagogo.<ref>Kubik, G. (2010). Theory of African Music, Volume I (Vol. 1). University of Chicago Press.</ref>

* In eastern Uganda, the [[Gwere music|Gwere]] use for their six-string [[harp]] (called tongoli) a [[tetrad|tetratonic]] scale in which all the intervals are [[Quasi-equal|nearly equal]], which to Western ears sounds like a chain of [[6/5|minor thirds]]. Though not the same thing, this is quite close to both [[4edo]] and [[kleismic]][4].

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* An essential family of musical cultures of Africa is the [[Arabic,_Turkish,_Persian|Arabic]] one, for which there is a separate page.

== References ==

== External links ==

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 == Other tunings ==
-* The [[Wagogo music|Wagogo]] people of central Tanzania use a [[pentatonic]] scale. Instruments include: [[kalimba]], harp, fiddle, [[marimba]], hand drum. Vocals tend to have parallel harmonies, singing at a distance of a [[penta-third]]. Hukwe Zawose is a well-known Wagogo musician.
+* The [[Wagogo music|Wagogo]] people of central Tanzania use a [[pentatonic]] scale that has been described as being based on harmonic 4 to 9.<ref>Kubik, G. (2010). Theory of African Music, Volume I (Vol. 1). University of Chicago Press.</ref> Instruments include: [[kalimba]], harp, fiddle, [[marimba]], hand drum. Vocals tend to have parallel harmonies, singing at a distance of a [[penta-third]]. Hukwe Zawose is a well-known Wagogo musician.
+* The Makua people have also been described as using harmonics 4 to 9. The Makua allegedly use the notes 8:9:10:12:14:16 as more of a "true" pentatonic scale than for the Wagogo.<ref>Kubik, G. (2010). Theory of African Music, Volume I (Vol. 1). University of Chicago Press.</ref>
 * In eastern Uganda, the [[Gwere music|Gwere]] use for their six-string [[harp]] (called tongoli) a [[tetrad|tetratonic]] scale in which all the intervals are [[Quasi-equal|nearly equal]], which to Western ears sounds like a chain of [[6/5|minor thirds]]. Though not the same thing, this is quite close to both [[4edo]] and [[kleismic]][4].
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 * An essential family of musical cultures of Africa is the [[Arabic,_Turkish,_Persian|Arabic]] one, for which there is a separate page.
+== References ==
+<references/>
 == External links ==