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In this early song, I can clearly hear one little bell held in one hand and struck by another held in the second hand. What is more, in the film, one can see Saroj Borkar doing exactly that :)
Listen to 1938_bhaabhee_01_man-moorakh-kyon-deevaanaa.mp3
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Listen to Narsingh 720
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in Father India.
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Early sound effects in the background or for songs were produced manually by using all kinds of props. Everybody knows about the sound of horse running produced by coconut shells. Realistic sounds such as footsteps, doorbell, phone ringing could be produced by using the real thing. For thunderstorms they used a gadget called thunder-sheet, a metallic sheet suspended by wires and moved back and forth. Here is the earliest example I have in my collection (Laal-e-Yaman song Number 8)
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Listen to Parivar (1967)
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