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Notice that there are actually ONLY twelve different tones on the keyboard within one octave. This means that amongst all the seemingly confusing and confounding Western music theory notation and analysis, we are really just talking about arrangements of these twelve tones.
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Kumoi Natural 2nd
This scale is another that comes to us from Japan. We’ll call it Kumoi natural 2nd, since that is the only variation from the Kumoi scale.