Natural scale may refer to:

Music

  • 5-limit diatonic major scale
  • Natural minor scale, as opposed to harmonic and melodic
  • C major and A minor, the diatonic scale in keys with no sharps or flats
  • Harmonic series (music), the series of pitches produced by instruments such as the natural horn and trumpet
  • The major scale in Pythagorean tuning, formed from a succession of fifths starting one below the tonic
  • On many wind instruments<!--such as the recorder and Irish tin whistle-->, the scale most easily produced by lifting the fingers one at a time from bottom to top<!---->

Other

  • Nondimensionalization, the removal of units from a mathematical equation