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How Many White Keys on the Piano? How Many White Key Scales?
You can keep doing this, playing a different scale on the piano's white keys only (there are 52), starting on a different key each time—a different tonal centre each time, a different "white key scale."
Next comes this one:
F – G – A – B – C – D – E – F
Then:
G – A – B – C – D – E – F – G
Then
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – A
And finally:
B – C – D – E – F – G – A – B
At this point, you’ve run out of scale possibilities—the next one would be a repetition of the C-based scale, the one you started with.
So ... seven variants of the diatonic order, each starting on a different white key of the piano. What’s the musical significance?