Contact: Clyde Beswick, VP Marketing, 310.275.9269, or email cbeswick@freehandsystems.com.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FREEHAND SYSTEMS, MAKER OF THE MUSICPAD PRO® EXPANDS SALES STAFF, CONTINUING SALES GROWTH EFFORTS

Sally Shreve appointed Vice President Sales, Linda Cole hired as Director of Sales and Dana Schroeder re-focuses on push into the music education market.

LOS ALTOS, Calif. – May 11, 2004 – Freehand Systems, Inc., announced today that it has hired Sally Shreve as Vice President Sales and Linda Cole as Director of Sales. In addition Dana Schroeder will now focus her efforts on the company’s growing business in music education. “This expansion of our sales team places Freehand in a strong position to expand its sales to music educators and to aggressively grow our retail channel, plus it strengthens our company for future sales growth,” said Kim Lorz, CEO. FreeHand Systems is a privately-held company with the mission of reinventing how musicians read and perform music, as the world leader in digital music technology and the largest distributor of digital sheet music song titles.

After two years overseeing FreeHand's sales efforts, Dana Schroeder will now focus her attention on the education market a major concentration for the company. She will be responsible for the integration of the company’s lead product – the MusicPad Pro into the Music Expressions curriculum of its education partner, Warner Bros. Publications. She will be working with over 40 sales representatives currently selling Music Expressions to schools in all 50 states.

Sally Shreve is joining FreeHand Systems as Vice President Sales with responsibility for sales of products domestically and internationally. Sally has over 20 years of sales and sales management experience with AT&T and Lucent Technologies. She has demonstrated success in building direct sales teams as well as developing new channels of distribution. She was responsible for growing AT&T’s Northern California $150M Business Communications Products business by 42%. She has successfully run the P/L for a $50M business with 10% EBITDA.

Linda Cole has been hired as Director of Sales and will operate out of the company’s office in Denver, Colorado. Linda is a sales and sales management professional with extensive business development, marketing and sales experience in the high-tech industry. She has been successful in sales and sales management roles at T2 Technologies and Lucent Technologies. Ms. Cole has successfully managed accounts in both the private and government sectors. She has experience in developing channels and has excelled in direct sales in the telecommunications industry.

FreeHand System’s MusicPad Pro is the world’s first digital sheet music computer tablet and makes teaching music much easier, learning music more enjoyable and performing music more fun. Not only does it create a paperless environment by providing storage capacity for an entire music library of more than 5,000 pages of sheet music, it solves the age-old problem of turning music pages by letting musicians simply touch the screen. They also can mark up compositions and write reference notes on the screen using FreeHand’s proprietary annotation technology.

Freehand Systems, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Los Altos, Calif., with the mission of reinventing the way musicians read and perform music. The company is a world leader in the development, manufacture, and marketing of electronic accessories to the music industry, as well as a leading Internet-based provider of sheet music and digital files. In addition to its flagship product, the MusicPad Pro, the company offers over 35,000 digital sheet music titles for download at its Sunhawk.com website (www.sunhawk.com).

Media Contact:
Clyde Beswick, VP Marketing, 310.275.9269, or email cbeswick@freehandsystems.com.

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