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tin pan
1. A pan made of tin, also attrib. in reference to the noise made by beating such.
1806Austin Papers (1924) I. 102, 1 doz. Tin pans. 1843Knickerbocker XXII. 50 With discordant fife and old tin-pans for drums. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Poet. & Imag. Wks. (Bohn) III. 169 What we once admired as poetry has..come to be a sound of tin pans.
2. A cheap, ‘tinny’ piano. Cf. tin-panny a. U.S. slang.
1882C. Farrar Amat. & Prof. Stage Life viii. 156 It was now Linwood's turn, and with a wail, that sounded like ‘Oh, if I only had a decent piano!’ he went out and tackled the old ‘tin-pan’ again.
3. Special Comb. Tin Pan Alley colloq. (orig. U.S.), the world of the composers and publishers of popular music; also applied loosely to a district where song publishing houses abound, spec. (formerly) in New York in 28th Street and in London around Denmark Street (see Denmark).
1908Hampton's Broadway Mag. Oct. 456/2 Oh it's a world in itself, is Tin Pan Alley. It has its laughter and its tears. 1909Busy Man's Mag. Jan. 48/1 Down Twenty-eighth Street, which is known as ‘Tin Pan Alley’, a dozen music publishing houses grind out new song ‘hits’ daily. 1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz viii. 161 Like everybody else, I think of the Alley as a street. As a matter of fact, Tin Pan Alley exists now only as a tradition. 1934[see Denmark Street s.v. Denmark]. 1944S. Bellow Dangling Man 132, I guess she sees herself in Tin-Pan Alley, her face streaked with tears. 1950Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime (1958) xi. 220 While Tin Pan Alley was squeezing ragtime dry, a few people made a lot of money and a great number of people made a little. 1979P. O'Connor Into Strong City i. xvii. 61, I found Seven Dials... Then Denmark Street. O this is Tin Pan Alley it belongs in the pages of the Melody Maker.
Hence as v. trans., to serenade in derision by beating tin pans; tin-panny a. U.S., of a piano: tinny-sounding; cf. sense 2 above.
1885Daily News 8 Jan. 6/6 The female portion of the community ‘tin-panning’ the rev. gentleman, a great uproar being caused by the beating of old trays, kettles, &c. 1904J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri ii. 30 On the platform of one [shop] a small crowd was gathered, and from the interior came shouts of laughter and the sound of a tin-panny piano. 1931G. O. Russell Speech & Voice iii. xv. 158 The high partials become ‘metallic’ like the tin-panny piano. |