Mashima listens to cylinder 347, labelled ‘Shunu bondo shivsarane koi’.

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Mashima listens to cylinder 347, labelled ‘Shunu bondo shivsarane koi’. Even before I play the song, I tell her the name and she says that there is such a song indeed. ‘Shuno bondhu tumar sricharane koi,’ she corrects me.

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SylhetLocation is approximate — known to district level.

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• She can hear what we can’t because she knows what to listen out for.

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  13:48
• I begin by playing two songs recorded on Bake India II Cylinder 341 A, recorded on 1 April 1934.

  Sylhet

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  09:22
• We listen together to ‘Shey dukh koibar katha noy go bolibo kare’, cylinder 343, sung by Fayazullah.

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  06:36
• We listen to cylinder 350, recorded by Bake on 15 April, which is described as a ‘sari gan’ (boatmensong).

  Sylhet

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  07:49
• Mashima and others in the room listen to Sawabali’s ‘Je din jaabe akher tori’.

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  07:46
• Mashima expresses her disappointment with the words of songs as they are sung nowadays.

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  08:17