Why are there only 7 musical notes? Was it decided to divide sounds like that or are there no more in nature?

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Why are there only 7 musical notes? Was it decided to divide sounds like that or are there no more in nature?

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A lot of music from the middle east use quarter-notes in their scales, which is half a semitone. This can be seen easily on fretted instruments as they have an additional 4 (I think) frets per octave.

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