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The Origin of Tin Pan Alley After the American Civil War over 250,000 pianos were sold every year, and by 1887 there were more than 500 young aspiring musicians studying piano. With these staggering numbers an increase in demand for sheet music was necessary and during the last two decades of the 19th century New York began to prove itself as the nation’s center of popular music publishing.