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Marvin,
Thanks for your kind words. Don't bother looking back into the Munsell/Reilly systems, though (in case you were so motivated). I did some digging into Munsell's and didn't see anywhere that chromas from different hue families shouldn't be compared to one another. In fact, they specifically are compared directly. I think the person who told me that they couldn't be so compared, mis-wrote, or I mis-read.
FYI, Denman Waldo Ross wrote a book entitled "THE PAINTER'S PALETTE: A Theory of Tone Relations -- An Instrument of Expression" in 1919 (published by Houghton Mifflin Company). I have a photocopied version. (There's no colour in it anyway. Funny.) It's hard to describe his theories in just a few words as they are comprehensive and complicated (at least in writing, they are). Once you set up one of his dozens of palettes (all of which are based on the same basic principles) I'm sure it becomes clearer. I haven't yet sat down to experiment with them, but I know someone who has and he says that they work marvelously. One of these days ...
Juan
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