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== Other tunings ==
== Other tunings ==
* The [[Wagogo music|Wagogo]] people of central Tanzania use a [[pentatonic]] scale 1/1 - 9/8 - 5/4 - 3/2 - 7/4 ([[Overtone scale|harmonics 5 through 10]], similar to [[5afdo]]) in all their songs and all their instruments. 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. 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.


* 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].
* 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].