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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

Equal divisions of the octave (EDOs)

Overtone scales

Primodal scales

Cartesian scales

Chord cubes

Clippers

Combination product sets

Compound scales

Crystal balls

Dwarves

Marvelous dwarves

Elves

Especially tempered dwarves

Euler-Fokker genera

Fokker blocks

Highschool scales

Hobbits

Moment of symmetry scales

Homothetic JI scales

Lesfip scales

Essentially tempered scales

Maximal harmony epimorphic scales

Omniconsonant scales

Scale products and scale powers

Tonality diamonds

Breed diamonds

Diaconv scales

Xenharmonic series

Yantras

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