serious error

Most of what I said in my reply to Kris Peck was correct, with the
following glaring exception...

>2. Every acoustic interval is always subtends the same number of scale steps.
>
>This is the killer, and I believe it (and not #3) is the origin of the "S"
in >MOS. Note that the reverse is not true -- every scalar interval is not
the >same acoustic size (this would seem true only for ET's...)! This is
very >important.

This #2 is *not* guaranteed by MOS, it is guaranteed by strict propriety.

The reverse, that every scalar interval is the same acoustic size, seems
true only for equal-step tunings.

Carl