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Tin Pan Alley - Home to New York’s Music Publishers
Tin Pan Alley is a term that is synonymous with the American music publishing industry. But, is there actually a Tin Pan Alley, how did it get its name and why has it become a byword for the music industry?
In the late nineteenth century, 25,000 pianos were sold in the United States each year and, with over half a million youngsters learning to play the instrument, there was a huge demand for sheet music. Indeed the clamour was so huge that publishers rushed to enter the lucrative market. Before long, 1885 publishers were scattered throughout the large cities of the continental USA, but during the last 15 years of the century they all began to graduate towards New York as the city’s prominence as the center for the production of the musical arts grew. It was here that publishers adopted new, aggressive business practices and marketing techniques to achieve phenomenal sales. The publishers tied talented and popular composers to exclusive contracts; they also conducted market research seeking out which style of music was currently the most popular. Then they would task their contract composers to produce works in that genre, thus immediately tapping into the lucrative market.
By the turn of the century many notable publishers had their offices on 28th Street between Broadway and 5th Avenue, and this is the area that became known as Tin Pan Alley. How it became to be known by that moniker is subject to a degree of urban legend, but the general consensus is that it is down to a visiting journalist by the name of Monroe Rosenfeld. He described the area as being drowned in a cacophony of noise emanating from the many producers’ offices, sounding as though hundreds of people were bashing tin pans. He used it several times in his newspaper articles in the early twentieth century and the term stuck.
One of the earliest Tin Pan Alley success stories was the composition ‘After the Ball’, written by Charles Harris, which sold close to six millions copies of sheet music. Other well-known Tin Pan Alley compositions from the early 1900s include ‘Give My Regards to Broadway’, ‘Shine on Harvey Moon’ and ‘Let Me Call you Sweetheart’, to which most people can hum the melodies and even recite the words!
If you wish to plan a visit to the legendary Tin Pan Alley and want to stay nearby, remember that hotels in Times Square are expensive, so make sure you have sufficient funds to enjoy your break and don’t blow your entire budget on accommodation.
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Could I manage to make a deck from a Yu-Gi-Oh tin?
I'm planning to buy a tin (thinking about Blackwing). I've been wondering if it was actually possible to assemble a deck just from the tin itself. (I have a Machina deck, but it's getting really boring...)
What tin do you guys recommend and, yeah, answer the question that I asked earlier..
Thanks!
no bad idea. The tins dont even have all the same booster packs in them in the first place, its like 5 booster packs in a tin and only maybe 2 of them are the same booster pack. so you have 10-18 cards that have a chance that they will be the same cards/ same type of cards you need. Even then unless its a duelist pack you still have low odds of pulling cards that really go together. I mean yeah if you really wanted to build a deck straight from a tin with nothing but the cards from that tin you could do it, its not go to mesh well as a whole deck, its going to be random.
If you really want to get some blackwing cards than yeah a blackwing tin will help you get started, but id advise you to wait until around feb. or march rolls around the storm of ragnorak booster packs comes out in the tcg and they have brand new blackwings in them. plus around that time a duelist pack crow is going to be released, (might be a month or two later) http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Duelist_Pack_11:_Crow but its going to make getting a blackwing deck easier for the people who dont have one yet.
Early Bakugan GI tin?!