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Octatonic scale
In music, a diminished scale (set 8-28, 0235689e) is a scale in which the notes of the scale ascend in alternating intervals of a whole step and a half step. Because a scale constructed in such a way has eight tones (versus seven for diatonic scales), it is sometimes called an eight-tone or octatonic scale (there are other possible eight-tone scales, but the diminished is by far the most common).
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