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sheet music, beginning 1964. By the 1980s, Hansen Music ventured away from the pop field, focusing on classics and jazz method books. The firm, in 1980, was operating 7 retail sheet music stores — two in San
Francisco, three in Seattle, and two in Las Vegas. The firm would later become inactive in
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when performing with ad-hoc musical groups for local jazz gigs or social occasions like weddings. However, the shift to licensed fake books started by Hansen Music took several decades, as the real book (an unlicensed and illegally distributed fake book that first appeared in the mid-1970s) was
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Charles Hansen Music & Books, Inc. The firm became inactive December 24, 1991. The larger part of the Charles Hansen catalog was acquired by Warner Brothers Publications, then subsequently sold to
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Publishers — a Florida registered fictitious name of Hansen Publications, Inc. — became inactive December 31, 2009, and the associated Hansen House web page is now inactive as of 2018, having been
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included simplified scoring of popular music for elementary piano, uke, trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, accordion, trombone, Western quartets, sacred choir, and barbershop quartets.
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