As an entirely unrelated thing, I recently made a song that may be of some interest to conlangers, as it is in an unusual tuning system - 11 tone equal temperament. Except the minor second, pretty much each interval is audibly off from the scales we are used to.
There's no reason to expect non-human or even non-western cultures to conform to the tuning system that has swept the western world since about 200 years ago. Even so, 11-tone equal temperament is not a very likely contender to even appear in any realistic non-information age culture in my opinion, although scales with somewhat similar structures could be a bit more realistic. (The most realistic option that enables songs with the harmonic and melodic structures of this scale would be 17-tone equal temperament, because 11 and 17 both are integer solutions to 5x + y, where x ≠ y, x ≠ 0 ≠ y and 17-tet per se is realistic because it has a low-error fifth. Granted, 22-tone equal temperament is also a possibility with an acceptable fifth.)
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