pentatonic

Another usage note on hexatonic.

"She stood there again now. For a tone memory like his, there was no difference between past and present. That's what was painful - he could never turn off the sound of loss. It was tragic, but it was also wonderfully sentimental; the day he died it would be just as bad as now, or worse.
Above her tone he heard a pentatonic scale. Exotic, like drums from a tropical jungle, and also deep breathing, like a blacksmith's bellows in the Friland Museum in Ã…rhus."
bosom - "He took the envelope from a large congratulations card from the dressing table, and on the back wrote with a lipstick what she had demanded. He handed the envelope to the woman.
'In the movies,' he said, 'women put perfumed notes like that into their bosom. Could I help you do that?'"
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.