Harmonic scale It was invented by Wendy Carlos and used on three pieces on her album "Beauty in the Beast" (1986): "Just Imaginings", "That's Just It", and "Yusae-Aisae". Versions of the scale have also been used by Ezra Sims and Frans Richter Herf. Though described by Carlos as containing "144 [= 12] distinct pitches to the octave", the twelve scales include 78 (= ) notes per octave. Technically there should then be duplicates and thus 57 (= 78 − 21) pitches (21 = ). For example, a perfect fifth above G (D) is the major tone above C. Harmonic scale The Harmonic
Von Luschan's chromatic scale of the skin type of individuals introduced in 1975 by Harvard dermatologist Thomas B. Fitzpatrick to describe sun tanning behavior. The von Luschan scale was used extensively throughout the first half of the 20th century in race studies and anthropometry. However, the results were inconsistent: in many instances, different investigators would give different readings of the same person. The von Luschan scale was largely abandoned by the early 1950s, replaced with methods utilizing reflectance spectrophotometry. The following table shows the 36 categories of the von Luschan scale in relation to the six categories of the Fitzpatrick scale: Von Luschan's chromatic