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Old 11-09-2003, 09:49 AM
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Notes not in the chromatic scale?

I was eading through Dansm's music theory website (http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~d...rds/theory.htm), and came across this paragraph:

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The figure below shows the twelve notes of the chromatic scale. These are the only notes used in Western music. Notes such as D# and Eb represent the same pitch and are called enharmonic equivalents. Different enharmonic equivalents are used in different scales; the sharp is used for sharp keys (e.g. F# major), and the flat is used in flat keys (Ab major).
Surely this implies that non-western music has notes which do not make up the western chromatic scale.

What are these notes, and what styles of music, regions and instruments are they used in?
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