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Interurban Era

@interurbanera.bsky.social

Hot damn! You nailed it. How'd you know?

Overall shot of The wholetone revolution

March 29, 2026 at 2:28 AM

P. Andrew Willis

@pandrewwillis.bsky.social

morning workout: the wholetone run in dick dogs by sonny sharrock.

January 23, 2026 at 3:36 PM

dillo saint dillo

@dillo.media

there's a kind of tritone/wholetone thing going on if you voice it properly bro

July 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM

Unwoman

@unwoman.com

unwoman.bandcamp.com/track/resolu...
The final entry in this juvenilia suite is one whose production I like. I used Metasynth grain synthesis on the vocal part panned right. The verses are wholetone and the chorus is in 7/8. Originally a piano piece, an acoustic version on Infinitesimal.
(day 157)

Resolution, by Unwoman

from the album Wildness & Artifice

unwoman.bandcamp.com

June 20, 2026 at 11:08 PM

sai

@texoport.in

i really hope isomorphic keyboards catch on. life's too short to practice scales in all keys on a piano youtu.be/8Dt5M9jqWg0

WHOLETONE REVOLUTION / Jankó - Just Friends

YouTube video by Wholesteps

youtu.be

December 28, 2024 at 7:48 AM

Aaron Lee, composer 🇨🇦

@musicoflee.bsky.social

Relative transformation: raising the fifth of a major triad by wholetone or lowering the root of minor triad by wholetone. Eg C major - A minor

March 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM

Man in Business Suit Levitating

@dfeldman.org

It’s also about 1/3rd smaller than a standard keyboard.

While a few companies sold these pianos, they never became popular.

A company called WholeTone made an electronic remake around 2000s, which unfortunately also failed.

reverb.com/news/a-chrom...

A Chromatic Keyboard From the Y2K Era | Fess' Find

This synth features rows of hexagons in an isomorphic layout and the same synth engine as the Korg N5.

reverb.com

March 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM

LAOMUSIC ARTS

@laomusicarts.bsky.social

LAOMUSIC ARTS 2026
presents

This week @LAOMUSIC_ARTS Jazz Guitar Course:
Lesson #232: Dim/WholeTone Scale Patterns #5 in All Keys on Jazz Guitar Course

Check it out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDZi...

#lao #music #arts #laomusic #laomusicArts #jazz #guitar #course #free #improvisation

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July 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM

LAOMUSIC ARTS

@laomusicarts.bsky.social

LAOMUSIC ARTS 2026
presents

This week @LAOMUSIC_ARTS Jazz Guitar Course:
Lesson #233: Dim/WholeTone Scale Pattern#6 in All Keys on Jazz Guitar Course

Check it out:

youtu.be/eqnN16Yw6BA?...

#lao #music #arts #laomusic #laomusicArts #jazz #guitar #jazzguitar #improvisation

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July 18, 2026 at 3:46 AM

LAOMUSIC ARTS

@laomusicarts.bsky.social

LAOMUSIC ARTS 2026
presents

This week @LAOMUSIC_ARTS Jazz Guitar Course:
Lesson #231: Dim/WholeTone Scale Patterns #4 in All Keys on Jazz Guitar Course

Check it out:

youtu.be/rhyYlLwXRP8?...

#lao #music #arts #laomusic #jazz #guitar #jazzguitar #course #free #improvisation

youtu.be

July 4, 2026 at 6:33 AM

Phil

@phil.barbato.space

Did you know you needed a whole tone sound bath tonight? Do you know what that means? Can you tell me? I may have just made it up?

#vcvrack #wholetone #soundbath #synthsky

youtube.com/live/cGcfsBQ...

Live VCV Rack Patch 2025-1-22

YouTube video by Phil Barbato

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January 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM

penny

@inforapenny.bsky.social

"penny on penny" is when i put on my own stream and do commentary like "ok this part's savill + coltrane + debussy + ives" and "i started playing the wholetone scale because i forgot what key i was in and that always makes whatever i'm doing sound intentionally psychedelic instead of like a mistake"

August 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM

Peter Ellis

@almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day

the sound reminds me of my childhood grownup-annoyer

Photo of a triola, it's a vaguely rectangular orange plastic brick with a brown mouthpiece and 12 vividly coloured plastic buttons. Every 7th button has the same colour, which doesn't make sense in any human scale except wholetone, but giving kids wholetone scale wind instruments is against the Geneva concention.

June 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM

Alyson

@alymusic.bsky.social

this comes to mind (I saw Jacob Collier in Nashville two years in a row)
youtu.be/z6k-4WaqvP4

Jacob Collier, '100,000 Voices' | LIVE

YouTube video by Wholetone

youtu.be

March 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM

Lennart Verhoeff - Oxenholme/WHITE HORN

@pixeltuner.bsky.social

New short, new scale! Wholetones are wholesome 🙃

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Wholetone Wholesome Digitone! #electronicmusic #ambient #digitone #microfreak #dawless #jamming

YouTube video by Oxenholme

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September 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM

🧞‍♀️ 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

@myzsd.bsky.social

What a silly question.

Ofcourse you play them as 24th fret on A and 22nd on D.

If you have a legacy guitar with not enough frets, you can play both at 22nd and bend up the first one by a wholetone. 😛

April 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM

Nori Ubukata

@uburoi.bsky.social

@kunettikettoday.bsky.social私は断捨離を決意した。
YAMAHA SY99, ARTURIA Micro Freak, Beat Step Pro, KORG Opsix, Wooden Eurorack case (PSU Included), Tokyo Yusto Wholetone revolution, YAMAHA CS-15, Presonus Studio 192を市価より安く売却します。
興味ある人は連絡ください。

June 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM

𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖗𝖊

@thedeepedge.bsky.social

ive been trying to figure out how to play over the C7#5 chord on stablemates for the longest time and besides the obvious scales (altered and wholetone) you can also play the 3rd mode of the bebop major scale (C Db Eb E F G Ab Bb)

January 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Warren Senders

@warrensenders.bsky.social

Man With Sign, March 7, 02025

LET'S BUILD A BETTER FUTURE TOGETHER.

Pentatonic (W-m3-W-m3-W) scales from starting points on a dim7 chord, w/ wholetone cadence.

Full write-up in 1st comment.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=85uQ...
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