05/06/2024
Today I came across this record/album (not sure the difference,) and i had to look for the right words to explain to a Gen z how this made our life so happy a few years ago hehe. I had to start from the beginning. There was this record player that my father and my grand father as well as many of my uncles and dads friends owned and it was the epitome of sophistication and measure of wealth in any sitting room. I painstakingly took her through the emotion of how we watched the kinanda (as we called it) magically make music as the authoritative subtle needle landed on the record at its first turn. I demonstrated using a few youtube videos that i could get but none could really get the real picture out. It was such optical nutrition watching the album turn round and round as the diamond needle vibrated over it moving fron one song to another in such melodious harmony. The aura and sophistication around the experience was something else. Some players were even gold coated, I remember my Dad,s was silver in colour. I even conducted a dancing competition with it for the neighborhood in his presence ofcourse. (Niliona kivumbi afterwards), anyway that is not todays story. This innovation seemed better than cassettes, CDs and all the kosokosos that followed there after, though we cant deny the years in-between. Someone actually thought through this concept ? kudos, as I learnt later that its called table turners in English though im happier calling it in my mother tongue...kinanda, sindano and thaani. The advice i got after coming out of the deep of story was... "Mum may be you can buy one and be looking at it daily coz it seemed to have made you very happy. I took the counsel kindly and for sure i will sourve myself one. I also hope social media, AI and the etc that is coming can replicate this depth of life for us and especially them coz so far its nothing compared to our dear old kinanda. ..Here is an imagery of the story if it makes you happy too.
