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Western music is based on a 12-note scale, with emphasis on harmony or chords to make the music sound pleasing and full. Eastern music, best as I can recall, has many more but smaller intervals in its scale, and the intervals between notes are not as "evenly spaced" as they are in the Western scale. It also relies far less on chords; its richness comes from the fullness of the scale itself. I love a good deal of Eastern music, especially Indian music (I'm wild for Tabla), but it always sounds "foreign." I wonder: Were I to listen to nothing but Indian music for the next decade, would Western music have the same, foreign sound as Indian music does presently for me.