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  • Gas powered leaf blowers are small two stroke engines, you’re smelling oil burning (oil is mixed with gasoline to lubricate, it burns by design), and those engines tend to be jetted to run rich so they don’t burn up too quickly.

    Unburned gasoline, unburned oil, burned oil are the extra smells that you don’t get from a lawnmower, which would be four stroke like a car.

    Two strokes are also noisier than four. They fire twice as often as four strokes, and for the purposes of a leaf blower, they also rev higher.









  • If we’re talking about stringed instruments, there are all kinds of different tunings that can be easily applied that open up different scales.

    Less “on the fly” tunable instruments exist in order to play music written to use the most preferred scale. And then more music is written using that scale because it can be easily performed. Bit of a vicious circle, which ends up creating a cultural familiarity with a specific scale, as well as unfamiliarity with other scales.

    Go check out King Gizzard.