LOS ALTOS, CA. (Top40 Charts/ FreeHand Systems) - 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. (OTC: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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