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Out of Tune

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Robert Sandall continues his investigation into musical tuning. Although Western music has adopted a system that divides an octave into 12 equal parts, other cultures have developed different systems. Sandall talks to Japanese and Middle Eastern musicians who argue that the use of microtones gives music greater expressive power. Producer John Watkins

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