If you take an instrument without predefined notes, such as a trombone or a violin, you can produce an infinite amount of notes between Do and Re for example (applies with out of tunes instruments as well). With that logic, you could have an infinite set of 7 notes that are as evenly « spaced » as our current standard. Im sure im missing something obvious.
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This is very much not a physics question and very much a cultural one. Both in that a) the names do re mi are very specifically English. Other languages use different words and more over 2) the major scale as defined by traditional music theory is also cultural. It’s from the cultural of western European musicians from a few hundred years ago. In other cultures, they define their musical building blocks in completely different ways. Different steps, different rhythmic concepts, etc
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