LOS ALTOS, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FreeHand Systems (Pink Sheets: FSYI) announces that its Novato Music Press catalog, consisting of over 20,000 classical, traditional and American music titles, is now available for the Amazon Kindle portable reading device. This marks the first time that a comprehensive collection of sheet music is being offered for this exciting new medium.
"This is a wonderful boon to musicians who want instant access to a vast library of in-demand sheet music," said Kim Lorz, CEO of FreeHand Systems, Inc. "In addition to the convenient and comprehensive content selection we offer, musicians never have to fumble through paper scores or worry about forgetting a piece of music; it's all there in the Kindle."
The company's digital sheet music website, http://www.freehandmusic.com/, consists of more than 130,000 titles and is the Internet's largest online sheet music catalog. The goal is to make all of the site's titles, ranging from jazz to pop and country to world music, available for download to the Kindle.
The Novato Music Press catalog includes 20,046 titles by 1,350 composers and consists of solo, chamber, opera and orchestra scores. Major composers (J. S. Bach, Mozart and Beethoven) are well-represented, but the collection also contains traditional songs and works from popular songwriters like Stephen Foster and George M. Cohan.
About FreeHand Systems, Inc.:
FreeHand Systems, Inc. (http://www.freehandsystems.com/), a wholly owned subsidiary of Freehand Systems International, Inc. (FSYI), is the global leader in digital sheet music publishing, is the manufacturer of the first digital music tablet, the MusicPad Pro(R) Plus and Sheet Music-On-A-Stick (SMOAS). SMOAS uses FreeHand's patented encryption technology to offer 22 collections of titles of digital sheet music on a thumb drive that plugs into a computer allowing instant access to listen, play along and print the music. This unique, one of a kind product fits well in the music-game and education mass market. The Pad provides innovative technology to the music industry for displaying and publishing digitally delivered sheet music. The company's digital sheet music website (http://www.freehandmusic.com/) offers over 130,000 titles for digital download and transfer to the MusicPad Pro.
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FreeHand Systems
CONTACT: Peter Giles of Giles Communications for FreeHand Systems,
+1-914-798-7120, pgiles@giles.com
Web Site: http://www.freehandsystems.com/
