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* Lower [[Zambezi]] music | * Lower [[Zambezi]] music | ||
** [[Nyungwe]] music | ** [[Nyungwe]] music | ||
Note that just because a tradition has an equiheptatonic scale doesn’t mean it uses it exclusively. They often have other tunings too. Also, the term “scale” here is used loosely, because many, perhaps the majority, of musical traditions don’t use scales, but use something else like tetrachords, raag, etc. that scales can only loosely model. | |||
An exactly equal equiheptatonic scale is [[7edo]], which is popular with modern Western xenharmonic composers. | An exactly equal equiheptatonic scale is [[7edo]], which is popular with modern Western xenharmonic composers. | ||