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The Last Sheet Music Magazine The Washington Times reports on the life and death of Sheet Music Magazine, a periodical print that gave its subscribers a mix of professionally transcribed (by some of the country's top arrangers) classic songs, along with tips on how to improvise "fills" and "turns" and advice on playing tricky sections and eccentric left hand melodies. But after 36 years, founder Ed Shanaphy cited a combination of factors - a dwindling senior readership, the economy, falling piano sales (360,000 at the start of the 1900's to 62,000 today) and online services for sheet music - that led to the demise of another printed magazine.

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