Families of scales

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 include:

• Cartesian scales
• Chord cubes
• Clippers
• Combination product sets
  • Dekanies
  • Eikosanies
  • Hexanies
  • Pentadekanies
• Compound scales
• Crystal balls
• Dwarves
  • Especially tempered dwarves
  • Marvelous dwarves
• Elves
• Essentially tempered scales
• Euler-Fokker genera
• Fokker blocks
• Harmonotonic tunings
  • Arithmetic tunings
    • Equal-step tunings
      • Equal divisions of the octave (EDOs)
    • Overtone scales
      • Primodal scales
• Highschool scales
• Hobbits
  • Moment of symmetry scales
• Homothetic JI scales
• Lesfip scales
• Maximal harmony epimorphic scales
• Omniconsonant scales
• Scale products and scale powers
• Tonality diamonds
  • Breed diamonds
  • Diaconv scales
• Xenharmonic series
• Yantras