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There are many possible scales. Limiting ourselves to 12 tones in an octave of equal tempering, and assuming that a scale is no less than five notes (and no more than 12 notes, obviously), there are 1,816 unique scale patterns. Some of them probably sound ridiculous and are unusable, but many are valid scales that just haven't been explored much in western music yet.

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