I felt like listening to some Javanese gamelan.
Gamelan has 2 tuning systems, sléndro and Pelog. Fun fact, if you can't remember which has 5 notes and which 7, count the letters and you'll know the wrong answer! Each gamelan set has a unique tuning, so although people have tried to define sléndro as near-5TET and Pelog as near-9TET with 2 skipped pitches, this doesn't really work without a perfect octave.
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#Romanian or #Moldovan music folks, help me out if you are out there, does this mode or scale (very common in your folk music) have a particular name or names in Romanian? I'm trying to rewrite the crap wikipedia article about it from a more cross-cultural perspective and this aspect is defeating my keyword searches. I know it in a Jewish context as Mi Sheberach, altered dorian or Ukrainian dorian.
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