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Srinagar, India (AP) – Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz, 1970 pushes a button in the sharp cassette player and revives a heavy rein. Like cashmere tailor stitches, cars, cars Ghulam Ahmed Sofi’s voice of the other world, the other world fills the shop with separation from the cute creator of divine love and the universe.
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Shaksaaz, who is a tailor in the city of Kashmir, Srinagar, has inherited music with Tamo cassette ribes, which is often listened to as soon as it works.
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Cassette bands are the best way to listen and archive music and archive, and archive is the best way to listen to Sufi music and archive of the Sufi of Muslim saints inspired and the archive. Many people appeal to music for spiritual leadership or to avoid street battles, closures and safety clampards of the region for a long time.
For decades, the cassette has a poetry that confuses the sound of Kashmiri instruments such as Sufi Saints and Sarangi and Santoor and has been a local ceremony to gather around the hot humm of a ribbon. Still, the traditional Sufi musical meeting of the region is often marked in the 1970s, which is widely used in the elementary sound format.
If the music becomes increasingly increasingly in digital formats, many Kashmiris says he heard the best in cassette tapes.
“There is something unique about this machine that plays the writings of the spiritual guides for me,” he said. “To listen to a song on the spiritualities, a cassette player is a sacred ceremony to press the game button.”
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Most of the most beloved albums were broadcast by local record labels during the admiration of the audio cassette, but the religious believers dedicated to the genre still bring ribbon records to the gathering. Digital records do not often want music sessions tonight because Sufi music lovers say that they are mixing different sounds from different instruments.
“This is a different experience to listen to music in the tape typing,” he said. “Bands can feel smooth and the sound of each instrument, you didn’t feel in these new players.”
Still wearing ribbons and more music moves to digital flow platforms and smartphones, the cassettes are difficult to continue to touch and deeply listening experience.
Many families were forced to participate in with their players due to mechanical failures, while others are struggling to protect dear cassette collections that hold rare and invaluable articles through generations. Some collectors applied to digit old posts to protect them for future generations.
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Srinagar, in the main city of the region, selling only a few shops, ribbons or empty ribbons and reduced the existence of spare parts and skilled repair technicians.
A handful of machines in the Kashmir Valley still, Sufi music lovers, which are made by their favorite Japanese brands like sharp and Kenwood in the last century, are recovering in the pain.
Muhammad Ashraf Matoo, a self-taught mechanic, as they are increasingly, have been increasingly, continuing cassette players for decades. Buy non-functional labels to remove suitable components and produces part of itself to continue customers’ devices. After being repaired, a good ribbon article is sold for a price of 150 to $ 850 depending on the brand and its condition.
One lifetime Sufi music called Devotee, “personal mission” to protect the heritage of cassette bands.
“This is a bridge in the past, this is always a way to modernization and digital roots in the world,” he said.
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