The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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There was no carpenter's work on the first vina, there were no wires. It had only one string, because the Rishis thought that the one sound - and not a variety - could help their concentration. Later there were seven strings. The vina is considered to be the perfect instrument, and seven is the number of perfection. The gourd is there to lessen the sound, not to augment it, to make it more solid than a sound that goes out more, to make it fuller and less sonorous.


 
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