Musical Journey of a 90's Kid - Part 2 : The Cassette to CD transition

As the craze for Cassettes continued, my cousin brother Anil Anna got a devotional cassette all the way from Mantralaya. I remember keeping it in a prominent place in the hall to flaunt it with everyone who came home. 

As time passed by, the interest slowly switched towards movie songs.My grandmother who saw my struggle to learn movie songs gifted me a Film hits book from Ankita Book House Basavangudi. This time I chose to flaunt this at school by carrying it in my bag everyday and telling friends that I bought this in BANGALOREEEEEEE :) 

CDs entered the world with more storage space and more advanced features. Browsing centres offered digitalizing all the Cassettes to CDs. But atleast in my circle , I dont remember anybody who made use of this facility fully. However, what excited us about CDs is the fact that, we could rent movie CDs now . Few years ago going to the theatres to just listen to our favourite songs now got converted to watch movies at home and visit the theatre when we really wanted to watch the movie and not just to listen to it's songs. 

Here by saying , Copying from a CD or to a Blank cassette, I donot intend to support any form of piracy. In those innocent years, the resources were so less and the thirst to learn new things and listen to fresh music is just inexplicable .

Meanwhile, harmonium came home from Laxmi Harmonium Works - Davangere. Now singing practice got a little interesting as there was another supporting music to give "Sath"( accompany) to my singing. I remember calling my grandparents' landline and giving them a virtual Harmonium concert after 9PM at night (considering STD used to be cheaper at night) . Grandparents were sweet enough to pretend that they were listening to a harmonium for the first time in life and thanked me for introducing the new instrument :D

To be Continued.......