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Part Two of The Single and The Music Industry, read Part One.
In the beginning, there was the piano.
In the year 1800, the first true upright piano was invented in Philadelphia by John Isaac Hawkins, and this smaller and cheaper (in comparison to the full grand piano) instrument grew to become a required item [...]

With the radical growth of music file sharing in North America from 1999, especially in the under-30 age demographic, many who earn their livelihood in the music industry are of the opinion that this is in some way related to industry practices… that the industry had sown the seeds of its own demise through the [...]