B848 <=> B850 (BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 849)

“One end of each string was fixed to one edge of this frame, and the other to pegs inserted into another edge.

“These pegs were inserted in such a way that they could be freely turned in their what are called ‘peg holes’ and the strings fixed on to them could at will be tightened or loosened as much as was necessary for the required number of vibrations.

“Of the great number of strings stretched on the Lav-Merz-Nokh, forty-nine were colored white and the totality of vibrations, that is to say, the definite sound obtained from the vibrations of each one of them was called a whole ‘center-of-gravity-of-the-octave,’ which definite sound corresponded to that which your favorites now call a ‘whole note.’

“Each seven strings of these ‘gravity-center-sounds’ or whole notes were then and are still called an ‘octave.’

“In this way there were stretched on the apparatus Lav-Merz-Nokh seven octaves of whole notes the totality of the general consonance of which gave what is called the ‘sacred Hanziano,’ that is, just what the two great brothers suspected and which happened almost exactly to coincide with what, as I already said, they then named ‘Nirioonossian-World-Sound.’

“Each such an octave of strings on the Lav-Merz-Nokh gave that totality of vibrations which according to the calculations of the great twin-brothers correspond to the totality of the vibrations of all those cosmic substances which, issuing from seven separate independent sources, compose one of the seven-centers-of-gravity of the ‘fundamental common-cosmic-Ansapalnian-octave.’

“Each white string on the Lav-Merz-Nokh was tuned separately by this Chinese learned being King-Too-Toz in such a way that it gave that average number of vibrations which according to the calculations of the great brothers ought also to be in substances which are one of the seven-centers-of-gravity of the given whole totality of substances, which in its turn is one of the seven centers of gravity of the fundamental cosmic octave of substances.