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AN allusion to musical sands may be found in one of the tales from the “Arabian Nights”—“The Story of the Two Sisters who were jealous of their Younger Sister.” Prince Bahman, who was journeying in search of rarities and treasures, reaches the foot of a mountain, and while ascending “was assailed with the most hideous sounds,” while others who followed him heard “groans, shouts, and all sorts of insulting epithets.” One of the wonders they were in search of was the “Singing Tree,” which “commenced to issue a series of exquisite strains of music” as soon as the Princess Parizadé. saw it.
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CARUS-WILSON, C. Early References to Musical Sands. Nature 95, 90 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095090d0
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