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Many African traditions (not sure which ones) developed equipentatonic systems. We take the fact that the French liked 10edo (what they call ‘metric tuning’) so much so that they even promoted it inside their colonies. This initially had more success than expected, due to a common arrangement by [TBD balafon player] who proposed the idea of two parallel balafons covering the entire 10edo gamut. This somehow eventually spread to America during the African slave trade and developed a new type of music (still called jazz), but Earth#10 jazz is more adventurous in the fact that they would regard each note of 10edo as equally important and thus they would regard the chromatic gamut as the scale itself. Equally interesting was the use of the [0 3 6 8] chord in 10edo as the main ‘primary’ chord in Earth#10 jazz music.

Earth#10 jazz music has more African influence in its instrumentation as well, with modern balafons being extremely common in jazz and other popular musical styles.

==Sociopolitical structure of this world==

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==Instruments==

(Take the notes to be called 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 0 of the 4th dekatave is written as 0_4 and has a frequency of 200*sqrt(2) Hz.)

The New Violin Family was developed much, much earlier, around the early 19th century, and served as a new "metric" equivalent to the old violin family. However, its method of contruction was to interpolate the old string family members and create new ones, rather than base all of its members on one single instrument. Its main members are:

*the soprano violin, tuned to 0_4 5_4 0_5 5_5

*the violin, tuned to 5_3 0_4 5_4 0_5

*the viola, tuned to 0_3 5_3 0_4 5_4

*the tenor viola, tuned to 5_2 0_3 5_3 0_4

*the violoncello, tuned to 0_2 5_2 0_3 5_3

*the bass violoncello, tuned to 5_1 0_2 5_2 0_3

*the contrabass, tuned to 0_1 5_1 0_2 5_2

Other surrogate members are:

*the alto violin, tuned to the same tuning as the viola with a slightly more violin-like tone

*the tenor violoncello, tuned to the same tuning as the tenor viola with a slightly more violin-like tone

*the subcontrabass, tuned a dekatave below the bass violoncello (this is a novelty, and the most famous one is at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal)

==Music==

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 Many African traditions (not sure which ones) developed equipentatonic systems. We take the fact that the French liked 10edo (what they call ‘metric tuning’) so much so that they even promoted it inside their colonies. This initially had more success than expected, due to a common arrangement by [TBD balafon player] who proposed the idea of two parallel balafons covering the entire 10edo gamut. This somehow eventually spread to America during the African slave trade and developed a new type of music (still called jazz), but Earth#10 jazz is more adventurous in the fact that they would regard each note of 10edo as equally important and thus they would regard the chromatic gamut as the scale itself. Equally interesting was the use of the [0 3 6 8] chord in 10edo as the main ‘primary’ chord in Earth#10 jazz music.
+Earth#10 jazz music has more African influence in its instrumentation as well, with modern balafons being extremely common in jazz and other popular musical styles.
 ==Sociopolitical structure of this world==
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 ==Instruments==
+(Take the notes to be called 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 0 of the 4th dekatave is written as 0_4 and has a frequency of 200*sqrt(2) Hz.)
+The New Violin Family was developed much, much earlier, around the early 19th century, and served as a new "metric" equivalent to the old violin family. However, its method of contruction was to interpolate the old string family members and create new ones, rather than base all of its members on one single instrument. Its main members are:
+*the soprano violin, tuned to 0_4 5_4 0_5 5_5
+*the violin, tuned to 5_3 0_4 5_4 0_5
+*the viola, tuned to 0_3 5_3 0_4 5_4
+*the tenor viola, tuned to 5_2 0_3 5_3 0_4
+*the violoncello, tuned to 0_2 5_2 0_3 5_3
+*the bass violoncello, tuned to 5_1 0_2 5_2 0_3
+*the contrabass, tuned to 0_1 5_1 0_2 5_2
+Other surrogate members are:
+*the alto violin, tuned to the same tuning as the viola with a slightly more violin-like tone
+*the tenor violoncello, tuned to the same tuning as the tenor viola with a slightly more violin-like tone
+*the subcontrabass, tuned a dekatave below the bass violoncello (this is a novelty, and the most famous one is at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal)
 ==Music==