Retuning 12edo to Orwell9

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The 9-note MOS Orwell[9] may be considered to be a chord, the orwell nonad, so that nothing very disharmonious is likely to arise from any combinations of tones which avoid too many simultaneous semitones. Hence, it is possible to retune a piece in 12edo to Orwell[9] by means of the following scale:

! orwell9-12.scl
Twelve notes of Orwell[9], POTE tuning
12
!
157.13063
157.13063
271.42613
428.55676
542.85225
542.85225
699.98289
814.27838
971.40901
971.40901
1085.70451
1200.00000

Some examples of this process are as follows: