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My Father’s Stereo
In my house , at the living room there is my father’s stereo. Since I can remember (more than ten years ago), this stereo has been inside a kind of wooden showcase. The living room got a lot of changes: new sofas, new telephone, new color, new furniture but that big black stereo is in the living room as always. We had got walkmans, mp3 players, cellphones, but the stereo is there and it seems it would never left the house. This stereo had the latest technology of its time, it could play cassetes, record them and, the best of all functions, play CD’s. It’s curious that the stereo is still at my house because the CD player stopped working long time ago and also did its speakers. I think this stereo is the oldest technology you could find in my house. But for my dad isn’t obsolete. My father is about 50 years old, he met acetate discs and for him the cassetes were the latest technology for some period of time. My father has a collection of over 30 cassetes. Spanish, Mexican and Sudamerican singers are his favorites.. Ballads and classic rock are the musical genre he prefer. I must say that my father is a very active person, on weekends he is always the first that wakes up, he goes out for running and while he prepares the breakfast for the whole family (that’s my parents, my two sisters and me) he plays that old songs he likes and he has the custom to play them loud. I bet the sound of the music wakes me up and it is not the sun that come inside my room through the Windows (I have big windows). But don’t think this bothers me, well, only when I went out the last night. I think the old songs I heard all my childhood made me like some 80’s and 90’s songs and also an attraction for musical instruments. Returning to the stereo, when someone’s birthday comes my father used to play “Las mañanitas” out loud. This last vacations my father was painting the house and he played over and over old cassetes from morning until the evening. I almost forgot to mention that my father doesn’t play loud the his music, he is always singing around, at the kitchen, the living room, the dining room, the stairs and the garage (yes, the bathroom too) inter alia. The stereo brings back to my mind many memories, well, maybe that’s why it still there.
