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Comment by kazinator

It's because the diatonic scale has seven notes, not eight.

The octave interval is stupidly named by counting from 1: CDEFGABC': 8 notes!

For the next octave, the high C' has to be stupidly counted again: C'D'E'F'G'A'B'C".

parent kazinator 12 years ago

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