ABSTRACT
An ancient Chinese legend relates the story of a man who was adept at playing the ch’in, a quiet and meditative string instrument. The man played only for a particular friend, for he believed that his friend was the one person who could understand the beauty of his music and the feelings and emotions that emerged from his fingertips onto the strings. When his friend died, the man broke his ch’in; no longer was there anyone who knew the message in his melodious sounds.1
