# The tuning text does not state whether the altered string is tightened or loosened, so the original ascending reading…

> The tuning text does not state whether the altered string is tightened or loosened, so the original ascending reading was an assumption, and its own…

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# The tuning text does not state whether the altered string is tightened or loosened, so the original ascending reading…

The tuning text does not state whether the altered string is tightened or loosened, so the original ascending reading was an assumption, and its own editor later judged the descending reading worth serious consideration.

Supported0

## What it means

Key question[Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBJK95SB/does-the-babylonian-tuning-series-and-so-the-h-6-scale-run)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Descending scale (Vitale, West)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/answers/ANS0DEDXGE725WJ/descending-scale-vitale-west)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Next steps 1

1

Read Vitale 1982 and Gurney 1994 in full and record the specific arguments from the Nabnitu string names for each direction.

~4 h

[On: Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBJK95SB/does-the-babylonian-tuning-series-and-so-the-h-6-scale-run)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 4

[Babylonian Music Again](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJS1S6NSG/babylonian-music-again)

Gurney 1994

SRC

[La musique suméro-accadienne: gamme et notation musicale](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ8YBEZ3J/la-musique-sumero-accadienne-gamme-et-notation-musicale)

Vitale 1982

SRC

[Mesopotamian Tonal Systems](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJS4GZ83G/mesopotamian-tonal-systems)

Crocker 1997

SRC

[The Babylonian Musical Notation and the Hurrian Melodic Texts](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHFB9BGX1/the-babylonian-musical-notation-and-the-hurrian-melodic)

West 1994

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The tuning text does not state whether the altered string is tightened or loosened, so the original ascending reading… [Evidence EVD0DEDZ669WSCE]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDZ669WSCE
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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/sessions/SES0DEEADDRHVSZ/session-1-the-hurrian-songs-of-ugarit-seeded-corpus-readings) · 31 Oct 2026

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