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FreeHand
Systems to provide Sher Music’s “Digital Real
Book” online in digital sheet music format.
FreeHandMusic.com
will have online digital version of Sher Music Charts available
for download.
LOS ALTOS,
CA, May 9, 2007 – FreeHand Systems, Inc. today
announces a licensing agreement with Sher Music Co., to make available “The
Digital Real Book” which will be the only legal online version
of Sher Music Company’s world-famous jazz transcriptions.
These charts have been approved by all living composers, and are
valued by musicians everywhere for their accuracy and attention
to detail.
“The Digital Real Book” will consist of hundreds and
hundreds of songs from Sher Music’s “New Real Books.” Including
compositions by Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield,
Tom Jobim, Cannonball Adderley and many more.
Chuck Sher,
President of Sher Music says: “We are absolutely
delighted to be partnering with FreeHand on this venture. The impact
of this deal will expand the availability our popular lead sheets,
and will allow musicians easy access to these charts via the Internet
or from local sheet music retail stores.”
Freehandmusic.com is the Internet’s largest online sheet
music catalog, with over 90,000 titles. Its website provides musicians
immediate access to all titles for printing and immediate use.
Making physical deliveries and exhausting retail searches a thing
of the past, FreeHandMusic.com online users are able to digitally
download music to their hard drives, printers or to FreeHand’s
MusicPad Pro in a matter of seconds.
FreeHand Systems’ revolutionary music performance tablet,
the MusicPad Pro® Plus, is the world’s only digital sheet
music tablet, and can store literally a limitless number of sheet
music pages. The environmentally friendly pad allows the operator
to download from its online catalog or scan in any piece of sheet
music, which then converts to the pad’s template. The user
is then able to annotate or make corrections, including changing
the key of entire compositions in a matter of seconds. The pad
additionally contains a zoom-in/zoom-out feature, an extensive
library of notation symbols, a half-page turn option (for look-ahead
viewing in portrait mode) as well as a back-lit device (making
external stand lighting unnecessary). The MusicPad Pro is accessibly
priced at US$899.
The reception
of Freehand Systems’ MusicPad Pro among professional
musicians has created an impressive list of early adopters, including
Herbie Hancock, Sting, Josh Groban World Tour, Andy Summers,
Jon Anderson, Etta James, Michael Nesmith, along with orchestras around
the globe.
FreeHand Systems,
Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of FreeHand Systems International,
Inc. (OTCO:FSYI) is the global leader in digital sheet music
publishing and is the manufacturer of the first digital music
performance and education tablet, the MusicPad Pro® Plus.
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press release contains forward-looking information within the
meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the "Exchange Act"), including statements
regarding potential sales, the success of the company's business,
as well as statements that include the word "believe" or
similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that
may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of
FreeHand Systems International, Inc. to differ materially from
those implied or expressed by such forward-looking statements.
This press release speaks as of the date first set forth above
and FreeHand Systems International, Inc. assumes no responsibility
to update the information included herein for events occurring
after the date hereof. Actual results could differ materially
from those anticipated due to factors such as the lack of capital,
timely development of products, inability to deliver products
when ordered, inability of potential customers to pay for ordered
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