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Before
commercial production of any 78 rpm |
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gramophone-record,
the songs had to pass |
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through
a quality test subject to
authority's |
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approval. For
this official procedure there was |
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a practice of
issueing a single copy of special |
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record, commonly
known as "Test Record". |
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These records
were generally single sided and |
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did not bear any
printed label of any company |
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but a
normal white label with hand
written |
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information
related to that particular song, |
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singer, matrix, recording date etc.
If a song |
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would get
approval for commercial release, |
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the white label
would rubber stamped "OK"/ |
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"Passed",
else "Cancelled"/"Rejected". These |
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records have a
historical importance related to |
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many authentic
documents related to Bengali |
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Gramophone-songs. |
