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Hey - you're cynical because of the endless seasonal performances you played! ;-)

Tchaikovsky beat Rimsky-Korsakov to the punch with the use of the celesta (in the Sugar Plum Fairy), but I believe that Rimsky beat Tchaikovsky in the use of the diminished scale (which I've always heard referred to as the octatonic scale - I think we're talking about the same thing: strict alternation of half steps and whole steps, right?). This would probably would be an interesting research project, and I'm not even sure we could count out Liszt as the originator of this scale. Rimsky was always very open about his debt to Liszt in his own music.

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