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> Music it turns out is as universal as language. Every culture has some
> form of music making. Through a variety of experiments and studies, it
> also turns out that languages sounds and music making sounds have a
> correlation to the 12 tone chromatic scale of sounds. In other words the
> sounds that make up language sounds are pretty much the same as those
> that make up music.
There's nothing natural or universal about the Western 12-tone scale. In different musical systems, an octave is broken into different intervals (5 tones, 7 tones, 24 tones, etc.). --And the available phonemes in various languages do not nicely map to any one musical scale.
Miles