YATSUHASHI applied this scale to the koto and moved away from tuning based on the conventional ritsuonkai scale towards new tuning methods based on the miyakobushi scale, namely the hirajoshi (literally tranquil tuning) and kumoijoshi (tuning based on hirajoshi tuning) methods.
八橋はこれを箏に応用し、これまでの律音階による調弦から、都節音階による新たな調弦法である平調子（ひらぢょうし）、雲井調子（くもいぢょうし）に改めた。