[sdiy] decaves?

[Ingo Debus]

Stephen Begin wrote:
> I was just curious as to whether or not anybody had ever heard (or heard of)
> dividing octaves into 10 semitones (evenly spaced).
> I'm guessing it wouldn't sound very musical most of the time, but I'm still
> curious.

The slendro scale used in gamelan music divides an octave (roughly) 
into 5 equal intervals, so it's sort of a subset of your idea. Once 
I've got used to it (which didn't take long) I find this scale very 
musical. The good thing with slendro in improvising is, there are just 
no wrong notes ;-)

Ingo