Non-Western Cultures
- The ancient Chinese chromatic scale is called Shí-èr-lǜ. However, "it should not be imagined that this gamut ever functioned as a scale, and it is erroneous to refer to the 'Chinese chromatic scale', as some Western writers have done. The series of twelve notes known as the twelve lü were simply a series of fundamental notes from which scales could be constructed."
- The Indian solfège, i.e. sargam, makes up the twelve notes of the chromatic scale with respective sharps and flats.
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