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If this is the case, then what happens when one constructs an equal-step tuning, but the period of that tuning does ''not'' exhibit equivalence? | If this is the case, then what happens when one constructs an equal-step tuning, but the period of that tuning does ''not'' exhibit equivalence? | ||
Perhaps, something like | Perhaps, something like {{w|beat (acoustics)|beating}} occurs, except instead of the micro scale of individual notes, the beating occurs on the macro scale on the entire scale structure? One could call this ''structural beating''. | ||
Structural beating may actually be a desirable property. It could make a periodic scale feel less repetitive, because as the periods of the scale fall in and out of sync with the psychoacoustic interval of equivalence - as they start to 'beat' - the scale starts to feel like it's different every period, with new colors and shapes - even though it's not. The composer gets something from nothing. | Structural beating may actually be a desirable property. It could make a periodic scale feel less repetitive, because as the periods of the scale fall in and out of sync with the psychoacoustic interval of equivalence - as they start to 'beat' - the scale starts to feel like it's different every period, with new colors and shapes - even though it's not. The composer gets something from nothing. | ||