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Tredwell’s Music Centre, perhaps the last retailer in North America to sell strictly sheet music for instruments of all kinds, is closing its doors after more than 80 years at the end of June. See our story here.

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Tredwell’s Music Centre, perhaps the last retailer in North America to sell strictly sheet music for instruments of all kinds, is closing its doors after more than 80 years at the end of June. See our story here.

While photographing the store, we got to wondering: could people identify popular songs based on just a snippet of their sheet music?

See how well you do with the ten songs in our quiz below.  Can’t see the quiz below? Try it at this link.

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