6L 2s
| ↖5L 1s | ↑6L 1s | 7L 1s↗ |
| ←5L 2s | 6L 2s | 7L 2s→ |
| ↙5L 3s | ↓6L 3s | 7L 3s↘ |
6L 2s, also called ekic, is a moment of symmetry scale consisting of 6 large steps and 2 small steps, with a period of 3 large steps and 1 small step that repeats twice every octave, or every 600¢. This scale is made using a generator ranging from 150¢ to 200¢, or from 400¢ to 450¢.
There is only one significant (though small) harmonic entropy minimum with this MOS pattern: hedgehog, in which two generators are 6/5 and three are 4/3, same as porcupine.
In spite of being a multi-MOS, 6L 2s is a warped diatonic scale, because it has one extra large step compared to diatonic (5L 2s): for example, the Ionian diatonic mode LLsLLLs can be warped to the ekic mode LLLsLLLs.
In addition to the true MOS, LLLsLLLs, there is also a near-MOS, LLLLsLLs, in which the period is the only interval with more than two flavors. The true MOS is always proper, because there is only one small step per period, but the near-MOS is only proper if the generator is smaller than 2\14 (which includes hedgehog).
Scale tree
| Generator | Cents | L | s | L/s | Comments | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1\8 | 150.000 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | ||||||
| 6\46 | 156.522 | 6 | 5 | 1.200 | Bison | |||||
| 5\38 | 157.895 | 5 | 4 | 1.250 | ||||||
| 9\68 | 158.824 | 9 | 7 | 1.286 | ||||||
| 4\30 | 160.000 | 4 | 3 | 1.333 | ||||||
| 11\82 | 160.976 | 11 | 8 | 1.375 | ||||||
| 7\52 | 161.538 | 7 | 5 | 1.400 | ||||||
| 10\74 | 162.162 | 10 | 7 | 1.428 | ||||||
| 3\22 | 163.636 | 3 | 2 | 1.500 | L/s = 3/2, hedgehog is around here | |||||
| 11\80 | 165.000 | 11 | 7 | 1.571 | Echidna | |||||
| 8\58 | 165.517 | 8 | 5 | 1.600 | ||||||
| 13\94 | 165.957 | 13 | 8 | 1.625 | Supers, pogo | |||||
| 5\36 | 166.667 | 5 | 3 | 1.667 | ||||||
| 12\86 | 167.442 | 12 | 7 | 1.714 | ||||||
| 7\50 | 168.000 | 7 | 4 | 1.750 | ||||||
| 9\64 | 168.750 | 9 | 5 | 1.800 | ||||||
| 2\14 | 171.429 | 2 | 1 | 2.000 | Basic ekic (Generators smaller than this are proper) | |||||
| 9\62 | 174.194 | 9 | 4 | 2.250 | ||||||
| 7\48 | 175.000 | 7 | 3 | 2.333 | ||||||
| 12\82 | 175.610 | 12 | 5 | 2.400 | ||||||
| 5\34 | 176.471 | 5 | 2 | 2.500 | ||||||
| 13\88 | 177.273 | 13 | 5 | 2.600 | Golden ekic | |||||
| 8\54 | 177.778 | 8 | 3 | 2.667 | ||||||
| 11\74 | 178.378 | 11 | 4 | 2.750 | ||||||
| 3\20 | 180.000 | 3 | 1 | 3.000 | L/s = 3/1 | |||||
| 10\66 | 181.818 | 10 | 3 | 3.333 | ||||||
| 7\46 | 182.609 | 7 | 2 | 3.500 | ||||||
| 11\72 | 183.333 | 11 | 3 | 3.667 | Unidec | |||||
| 4\26 | 184.615 | 4 | 1 | 4.000 | ||||||
| 9\58 | 186.207 | 9 | 2 | 4.500 | Secant | |||||
| 5\32 | 187.500 | 5 | 1 | 5.000 | ||||||
| 6\38 | 189.474 | 6 | 1 | 6.000 | ||||||
| 1\6 | 200.000 | 1 | 0 | → inf | ||||||