Rich County Reaper | 1938-05-27 | Page 7 | Tin Pan Alley

tin pan alley this term is applied not to a street but to an area in new york city which is largely occupied by music publishers especially the publishers of modern popular songs and arrangements the area lies roughly between forty fourth and forty ninth streets and between broadway and eighth avenue the designation tin pan is due to the discordant sounds afflicting the ears of passersby when different songs or arrangements are being played at one time by various instruments in adjacent publishing houses