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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.

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. As such, European wind instruments are not used at all, and hence the saxophone is more commonly used in the orchestra.

==Sociopolitical structure of this world==

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===The Earth#10 symphony orchestra===

The symphony orchestra in Earth#10, due to the lack of brass instruments, has a bloated wind section. Wind instruments are more commonly in groups of three, the most common grouping being, in the common orchestral score order:

* 2 flutes, 1 piccolo

* 2 oboes, 1 alto oboe

* 2 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon

* 2 alto saxophones, 1 baritone saxophone

* 2 clarinets, 1 bass clarinet

* 2 nielsenphones, 1 bass nielsenphone

==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.
+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. As such, European wind instruments are not used at all, and hence the saxophone is more commonly used in the orchestra.
 ==Sociopolitical structure of this world==
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 ===The Earth#10 symphony orchestra===
+The symphony orchestra in Earth#10, due to the lack of brass instruments, has a bloated wind section. Wind instruments are more commonly in groups of three, the most common grouping being, in the common orchestral score order:
+* 2 flutes, 1 piccolo
+* 2 oboes, 1 alto oboe
+* 2 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon
+* 2 alto saxophones, 1 baritone saxophone
+* 2 clarinets, 1 bass clarinet
+* 2 nielsenphones, 1 bass nielsenphone
 ==Music==