# Colin question- scales name origin?

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**Created:** [September 16, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/colin-question-scales-name-origin/293076 "2018-09-16T19:51:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Iggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@Iggy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Iggy)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/colin-question-scales-name-origin/293076/1 "2018-09-16T19:51:59Z")

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Where did the name scales collective come from

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**Author:** ![ColinBecko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/colinbecko/32/54758_2.png) [@ColinBecko](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ColinBecko)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/colin-question-scales-name-origin/293076/2 "2018-09-16T19:57:14Z")

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Scales was chosen by Ky Zizan & Bergy when we started to relate to multiple definitions. For example, scales can relate to judging in terms of how people score (clicking ratio, for example super high or low). There’s a lot more, I think it’s kinda fun to let people think of their own definition of it 🙂

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/colin-question-scales-name-origin/293076/3 "2018-09-17T00:28:08Z")

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I think of music, myself, since I think really great yo-yo is like jazz and kinda artistic and improvisational where you noodle through and combining flow and tricks.

> **[Scale (music)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music))**
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> In music theory, a scale is "any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency. 
> The word "scale" originates from the Latin scala, which literally means "ladder". Therefore, any scale is distinguishable by its "step-pattern", or how its intervals interact with each other. 
> Often, especially in the context of the common practice period, most or all of the melody and harmony of a musical work is built u...

I am nowhere good enough to do that, but that’s the ideal in my mind at least :wink:

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**Author:** ![ColinBecko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/colinbecko/32/54758_2.png) [@ColinBecko](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ColinBecko)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/colin-question-scales-name-origin/293076/4 "2018-09-17T00:28:34Z")

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@codinghorror Another super good one!