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Tagged As: Online Piano

Question:
Can anyone help with an online website that has piano notation? An elderly friend of my mother's wants the piano music for the old song Let Me Be Your Sweetheart but I've yet to find it online. I know there are lots of guitar sites online that provide the notation for free, but I haven't found this for piano yet. Any help will be greatly appreciated and please email me directly.

Answer:
Generally, most popular songs are still protected by copyright. The sort of notation (tablature) generally found on guitar sites is in a sort of grey area with respect to whether it violates copyright or not, since it doesn't actually spell out the whole tune in full detail. But sheet music with regular notation definitely requires permission to distribute, which is why you generally have to buy it in stores, where a royalty gets paid to the composer. That said, if this is the song I'm thinking of, it may well be old enough to be in the public domain by now.