[watwut]

Why was this downvoted? I was right. Traditional Chinese music is in pentatonic scale.

[skj]

In context, "have octaves" mean treating notes whose frequencies are powers of two as the "same", just shifted up. I believe the pentatonic scale still has this feature.

[watwut]

Thank you.

[baddox]

I'm no expert on Chinese music, but every Chinese scale I'm aware of is still based on the harmonic series and still observes octave equivalence.

[pkolaczk]

Chinese pentatonic scale is just a subset of major heptatonic scale used in western music.