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Earth#10 jazz music has more African influence in its instrumentation as well, with modern balafons and electric (and acoustic) koras 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.

Due to the influence of Nystrom, hexadecimal (called nystromal in this universe, to distinguish it from "tonal") is used as an official number base across the larger cities in Northern Europe and the Northwestern European Union.

==Sociopolitical structure of this world==

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

*the subcontrabass, tuned a dekatave below the contrabass (this is a novelty, and the most famous one is at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal) (yes, this is the octobass analogue)

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Theobald Boehm invented not one, but two separate systems of 10edo fingering: the first "English style" fingering was based on the 5edo equipentatonic scale. The second "German style" fingering was based on the Kleeth/Durmoll scale. Klosé and Buffet then adapted both systems for the clarinet, but there was one small problem: the clarinet overblew at a noticeably flatter interval than the desired 16 steps of 10edo. Hence, with the help of Danish instrument designer and physicist Christoffel Nielsen (not to be confused with Carl Nielsen) (his name is derived from the alleged real name of TruncatedTriangle) they managed to successfully make it overblow at the interval spanning 16 steps of 10edo. However, the older designs with a perfectly cylindrical tube are popular in clarinet ensembles today and are regarded as "pure clarinets", tuned to 16edt instead of 10edo. (The 10edo versions are called "orchestral clarinets"). Some mathematicians like John Nystrom support this system, and in fact, the 16edt-based system is hardcoded in Earth#10's MIDI. (Some fringe composers compose in 16edt instead of 10edo.)

Double-reed ~~16ed3~~ instruments have also been made, providing a Western analogue of the Chinese guanzi. They are called nielsenphones after Christoffel Nielsen and they use both Boehm/Klosé systems. I will not mention oboes, bassoons, and saxophones here because their histories were pretty much the same except for the fact that they are tuned in 10edo.

Double-reed 16edt instruments have also been made, providing a Western analogue of the Chinese guanzi. They are called nielsenphones after Christoffel Nielsen and they use both Boehm/Klosé systems. I will not mention oboes, bassoons, and saxophones here because their histories were pretty much the same except for the fact that they are tuned in 10edo.

The transposition system for these instruments is messy compared to that of the string instruments. To start, most flutes, oboes, bassoons, saxophones, orchestral clarinets and orchestral nielsenphones follow the system where every member of the family is always a 10edo fifth (5\10) apart. However, the pure clarinets and pure nielsenphones are all a 16edt eighth (8\16<3/1> or sqrt(3)) apart, causing both transposition systems to have separate names for each register. That does not take into account the two "English" and "German" style key systems, which make classification of orchestral woodwind instruments in Earth#10 much more complicated than in our world.

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 Earth#10 jazz music has more African influence in its instrumentation as well, with modern balafons and electric (and acoustic) koras 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.
+Due to the influence of Nystrom, hexadecimal (called nystromal in this universe, to distinguish it from "tonal") is used as an official number base across the larger cities in Northern Europe and the Northwestern European Union.
 ==Sociopolitical structure of this world==
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 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 tenor violoncello, tuned to the same tuning as the tenor viola with a slightly more cello-like tone
 *the subcontrabass, tuned a dekatave below the contrabass (this is a novelty, and the most famous one is at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal) (yes, this is the octobass analogue)
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 Theobald Boehm invented not one, but two separate systems of 10edo fingering: the first "English style" fingering was based on the 5edo equipentatonic scale. The second "German style" fingering was based on the Kleeth/Durmoll scale. Klosé and Buffet then adapted both systems for the clarinet, but there was one small problem: the clarinet overblew at a noticeably flatter interval than the desired 16 steps of 10edo. Hence, with the help of Danish instrument designer and physicist Christoffel Nielsen (not to be confused with Carl Nielsen) (his name is derived from the alleged real name of TruncatedTriangle) they managed to successfully make it overblow at the interval spanning 16 steps of 10edo. However, the older designs with a perfectly cylindrical tube are popular in clarinet ensembles today and are regarded as "pure clarinets", tuned to 16edt instead of 10edo. (The 10edo versions are called "orchestral clarinets"). Some mathematicians like John Nystrom support this system, and in fact, the 16edt-based system is hardcoded in Earth#10's MIDI. (Some fringe composers compose in 16edt instead of 10edo.)
-Double-reed 16ed3 instruments have also been made, providing a Western analogue of the Chinese guanzi. They are called nielsenphones after Christoffel Nielsen and they use both Boehm/Klosé systems. I will not mention oboes, bassoons, and saxophones here because their histories were pretty much the same except for the fact that they are tuned in 10edo.
+Double-reed 16edt instruments have also been made, providing a Western analogue of the Chinese guanzi. They are called nielsenphones after Christoffel Nielsen and they use both Boehm/Klosé systems. I will not mention oboes, bassoons, and saxophones here because their histories were pretty much the same except for the fact that they are tuned in 10edo.
 The transposition system for these instruments is messy compared to that of the string instruments. To start, most flutes, oboes, bassoons, saxophones, orchestral clarinets and orchestral nielsenphones follow the system where every member of the family is always a 10edo fifth (5\10) apart. However, the pure clarinets and pure nielsenphones are all a 16edt eighth (8\16<3/1> or sqrt(3)) apart, causing both transposition systems to have separate names for each register. That does not take into account the two "English" and "German" style key systems, which make classification of orchestral woodwind instruments in Earth#10 much more complicated than in our world.