OK, it was a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess--8 notes in the major scale, plus the flat/sharps, if I was a smart person I would have gone to the keyboard and counted).....OK, gonna do that now........please hold. <<<<<<<<<<<. OK, OK, Western chromatic scale is 12 notes. We are only talking half tones here, not Eastern quarter tones, Eastern modal, etc.

mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. My original point still holds tho, doesn't it?