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Sound was made on the stringed instruments by rubbing, that is, friction. The primordial creative friction was of course that of sex.

Also sexual were the number-relations of the musical string-lengths. (These lengths were the inverse of the frequencies of the musical tones as we would measure in vibrations per second.)

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