MP3's continued...

players such as the iPod, iRiver, Zen, GoGear, Sony and many more. Over the succeeding months, NVR hopes to digitize and add to the catalog available, all contest music dating back as far as the technology will allow. As you might imagine, old reel to reel tapes from the 40's are rather fragile so a by product of this effort will be the conservation and preservation of the Society's audio legacy. It is estimated that this initiative will ultimately result in an available barbershop catalog of tens of thousands of tracks! 

No more will you have to listen to stories from other barbershoppers about the incredible-haunting-outrageous-humorous-poignant (insert your own adjective) performance of such and such quartet in the semi-finals at such and such convention. You can own it! Are you a die hard fan of a certain quartet or chorus? You will be able to add new and never before available performances to your collection. Cost constraints and the realities of the brick and mortar marketplace have only ever allowed the Society to release a "Top 20" recording with some of the songs sung by each performer. Now you will be able to get them all! (Many performers have thought their best cuts were not the ones on the album anyway!)

So there is still time to run out and grab one of the latest and greatest portable music players on the market for your barbershopper who has been very, very good this year because very, very soon he or she will be able to have that player very, very full of barbershop music from the finest quartets and choruses in the world!

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Jonathan P. Clunies, 
Esquire Stephen (Iannacchione) Wilde
Manager and General Counsel Chief Creative Officer

jon@nakedvoicerecords.com 
steve@nakedvoicerecords.com 

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