gapped scale

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   a musical scale with fewer than seven notes

   Broaderscale

   Narrowerpentatonic scale

Questions about gapped scale

What does gapped scale mean?

gapped scale means "a musical scale with fewer than seven notes".

Is gapped scale a common word?

gapped scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.