Fretting the Monochord
The Traditional Western Scale
The modern Western musical scale is divided into twelve notes. On a piano, this consists of eight white notes, labeled “C, D, E, F, G, A, B” in the diagram on the right, and five black notes, labeled, “C#, D#, F#, G#, and A#.” The second C note in the series is one octave higher than the first one.
