Benin_Trombone_01

Benin 1 (Trombone), Benin

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Properties

Notes	6
Period	1200.0 ¢
Just	No
Source	Database of Musical Scales
Reference	Copeland, Lyndsey (2018). Pitch and tuning in Beninese brass bands. Ethnomusicology Forum, 27(2):213-240.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2018.1518151
Country	Benin
Reference	2 scales

Tone (¢)	Step (¢)
188	188
515	327
701	186
893	192
1001	108
1200	199

Similar scales

File	Notes	Rotation	Max diff (¢)
Greece_Third	6	4	10.0
CD17_12_Tunisia	6	4	11.4
CD16_06_Morocco	6	0	14.3
CD16_09_Morocco	6	0	14.7
CD13_06_husayni_Iraq	6	3	14.8
CD14_04_Algeria	6	5	16.6
CD14_03_Algeria	6	5	16.8
CD16_05_Morocco	6	0	16.9
Greece_Grave	6	4	19.0
CD18_04_rast_Tunisia	6	0	19.3

Parent scales

File	Notes	Max diff (¢)
dialeastsquares	7	10.1
xen18-erlich-meantone-07	7	10.9
xen18-erlich-flattone-07	7	13.3
CD15_13_Morocco	8	12.1
United_Kingdom_Bagpipe_05	7	16.0
synpor4	7	16.6
synpor5	7	16.6
xen09-wilson-marwa-04-02	7	16.6
xen09-wilson-marwa-04-03	7	16.6
xen12-chalmers-tritriadic-dm-5-15-27	7	16.6

Child scales

File	Notes	Max diff (¢)
xen18-erlich-meantone-05	5	10.9
xen18-erlich-flattone-05	5	13.3
Vietnam_Bac	5	14.0
xen18-erlich-helmholtz-05	5	16.7
xen18-erlich-garibaldi-05	5	16.9
xen15-gilson-just-pentatonic	5	17.0
xen15-gilson-pythagorean-pentatonic	5	17.0
Thailand_Kaen_hok	5	17.0
xen18-erlich-dominant-05	5	19.1
Uganda_Xylophone_a	5	21.0

Raw file

! Benin_Trombone_01.scl
!
Benin 1 (Trombone), Benin
 6
!
 188.0
 515.0
 701.0
 893.0
 1001.0
 1200.0 ! Octave added to measured scale
!
! Copeland, Lyndsey (2018). Pitch and tuning in Beninese brass bands.
! Ethnomusicology Forum, 27(2):213-240.
!
! [info]
! source = DaMuSc
! measured_id = M0295
! ref_id = 53
! country = Benin
! doi = https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2018.1518151