Surjit Singh Flora
Before the digital, social media and internet phase, showing off your cassette collection used to be a big deal. In the 90s, the cassette player was a part of almost everyone’s life. Songs of Surinder Shinda, K. Deep, Jagmohan Kaur, Kuldeep Manak, Gurdas Maan, Yamal Jatt etc. were usually heard in trucks, buses, cars. Before that, there were stone records, which later came to be plastic. When playing cassettes, they become so worn that they start to get stuck or break, which can be attached with ordinary glue by moving it around with a pencil. After the addition, the fun of listening to the songs became a little rough because from where the addition was made, the song would speed up and make a very bad sound, which spoiled the juice of the ears. Many of us became very good at rewinding tapes with a pencil, and some even became experts at carefully cutting off a bad piece of tape with a blade and then cutting a strip of Scotch tape to reassemble the rest. was That cassette player also had an AM and FM radio, which had a small, visible antenna that stretched out after opening the layers. Then we kept turning it, sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left, forward and sometimes backward, until his voice became clear.
There was a collection of cassettes in the houses
Homes had a growing collection of cassettes, sometimes reaching large shelves in the living room. It was common practice to place a microphone in front of the cassette player and play the speaker on the barn at weddings, etc. According to time, first CDs and then DVDs came into the market. Old radios and cassette players began to disappear. CD players also entertained people for a few years but soon the digital age started changing things rapidly. Now all the music and movies are put on a stick, which you can listen to at home, in the car or on the phone wherever you want. Along with this, smart phones and smart watches came, which ate everything from stone records to CD players.
There is still a market for collectors
However, there is still a niche market for cassette players and tapes among collectors, enthusiasts and some musicians who appreciate the vintage sound and aesthetics. Additionally, there is a resurgence of releasing music in the format of cassette tapes. Not as a whole, but cassette players and tapes continue to exist in some societies. In fact, the cassette is making a comeback in some circles and is going through a bit of a renaissance as an accessory to the revival of vinyl records. There are bands releasing new music on cassette. The importance of cassette tapes in the context of human culture has become more.
