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diatonic

(adj): vs. chromatic) -- (based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals

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20 days ago yarb said:

...curlews employ
the same diatonic now as then.

- Peter Reading, Early Morning Call, from Fiction, 1979

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