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Chaski

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For some reason though, whenever I play a pentatonic scale on a real piano, it always sounds different when I play it all on the black keys, to me, F#/Gb pentatonic sounds a little warmer then any of the others. No clue why.

That's because F#/Gb is just an all-around awesome key :D To me, it's one of the warmest keys... That may be due to it's position: halfway between C and C, one of the brighter keys in my opinion. Eb is warm, too, because A is the brightest key ever in my opinion, it's so tinny @_@;

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Pentatonic scales are extremely common in many musical traditions around the world, perhaps they're even the most common type of "scale". Take the Balinese/Javanese slendro for example. However, most of these have intervals that are quite different from our tone system, so using the black keys is only a very rough approximation. (In slendro for example, the five tones in an octave are much more evenly spaced than the "black key" scale consisting of major seconds and minor thirds.)

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Perhaps I might mention an instrument that tends to be tuned to the pentatonic scale (corresponding to the black keys on the piano, of course). This is called a hang drum, and can come in several tuning, pentatonic being only one of them. Here's what it sounds like:

Pentatonic Hang Drum

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