MIRROR WRITING (175 Any mirror chord may be doubly mirrored. These complex structures are used primarily with large unmirrored compound chords. Enharmonic changes are made when spelling becomes un- wieldy. Even though the members of mirror chords are built from a tone or tones located in the center of the chord the building tone never functions aurally as a root. It is the entire chordal bulk that emerges as a chord in its own right. Mirror chords usually assume the character of the bottom chord. Some scales are naturally reflective in that two separate scales move identically, interval for interval, when placed in contrary motion. The entire diatonic scale system is symmetrically invert- ible. The mirrored diatonic scales appear in a reversed order of color gradation. The dorian in mirrored version produces the same scale.