Families of scales

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By a family of scales is meant a certain set of scales, finite or infinite, generated according to a regular and exactly specified method. Examples of scale families are EDOs, equal-step tunings, MOS, and Fokker blocks. Below are some further scale families.

Arithmetic tunings

Breed diamonds

Cartesian scales

Chord cubes

Clippers

Combination product sets

Compound scales

Crystal balls

Diaconv scales

Dwarves

Elves

Especially tempered dwarves

Euler-Fokker genera

Fokker blocks

Highschool scales

Hobbits

Homothetic JI scales

Lesfip scales

Essentially tempered scales

Marvelous dwarves

Maximal harmony epimorphic scales

Omniconsonant scales

Overtone scales

Primodal scales

Scale products and scale powers

Tonality diamonds

Xenharmonic series

Yantras

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