B879 <=> B881 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 880]

“Continuing to speak further about the laws of vibration of sound, he said:

“’I myself became interested in the knowledge Shat-Chai-Mernis through the laws of vibrations of sound; and they were the cause of my devoting the whole of my life subsequently to this knowledge.’

“And, after thinking a little to himself, he related as follows:

“’I must first tell you, my friends, that although I was a very rich man before I entered the brotherhood of the dervishes, yet I was very fond of working at a certain craft, namely, I used to make various stringed musical instruments of the kind called “sayaz,” “tar,” “kiamancha,” “zimbal,” and so on.

“’And even after I had entered the brotherhood I devoted all my free time to this profession of making musical instruments chiefly for our dervishes.

“’And the cause of my further serious interest in the laws of vibrations was the following:

“’Once the Sheikh of our monastery called me to him and said:

“’”Hadji! In the monastery where I was still an ordinary dervish, whenever during certain mysteries our musician dervishes played the melodies of the sacred canticles, all of us dervishes always experienced from these melodies of the sacred canticles particular sensations corresponding to the text of the given sacred canticle.