Navatone

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The navatone is the name of a musical interval that is made up of nine whole tones. The term is also used to refer to any pitch in the neighborhood of 1800 ¢, or any interval which is one octave above a tritone.

Some commonly used navatones
Ratios Prime limit
45/16, 25/9 5
20/7, 14/5 7
17/6 17
23/8 23
31/11 31

Etymology

Nava- is the Sanskrit numeral prefix for nine.