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Author Chris Mohr began work on 53-note-to-the-octave music in 1999 and created his musical mandala in 2004. He has since “mapped out” hundreds of ancient scales from all over the world in their original tunings, all fitting beautifully into a single “Grand Unified Theory of Ancient Music.” While not covering all of music, it does unite many ancient theoretical systems from around the world. He has also mapped out over 100 chord progressions built off the seventh harmonic in 53-equal, expanding the vocabula
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How would you like to have all of this in your musical toolbox? • The ability to play several hundred ancient scales from all over the world in their original tunings • The ability to play those ancient scales while changing keys at will, something the ancients could never do • The ability to “mix and match” all the ancient scales from all over the world, freely moving from Chinese to Arabic to Byzantine to Indian to Roman scales, all the while staying perfectly in tune with each of these scales? • The abil