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Year: 2016

Just Intonation

This is hopelessly geeky stuff, but if you’ve been messing with it for decades like I have, it is just so cool to have a concise history of how the Just diatonic scale is built:

Just Intonation

For dulcimer fretting, the KEY is to remember that the open string is scale degree 5, and not 1 like most people expect. The 3rd fret is 1 or “do” !!!

jcrmusic diatonic, Just Intonation, music theory Leave a comment January 16, 2016January 16, 2016 1 Minute

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