The whole collection of diatonic scales as defined above can be divided into seven different modes.

In order to play the diatonic scale on a bansuri, one needs to find where the notes lie.

In this sense it generalizes a property of the familiar diatonic scale.

Examples include the diatonic scale (including major, natural minor, and the modes).

It has from five to nine (usually eight) strings producing a diatonic scale.

A complete 11th chord has almost every note of a diatonic scale.

At a 7:4 ratio, it is not close to any interval on the conventional Western diatonic scale.

The interval between adjacent staff positions is one step in the diatonic scale.

In Western music, intervals are most commonly differences between notes of a diatonic scale.

The circle is commonly used to represent the relationship between diatonic scales.