PR: Music Transcription Company Launches in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, PA (PittsburghNewsWire.com) — Tunescribers.com (www.tunescribers.com) has just launched its new service, promising to transform how people get custom-made sheet music.  The company is founded by Jeff Pepper, the founder and past CEO of two of the Pittsburgh region’s most successful tech companies.

Despite advances in computer software, creating high quality transcription of recorded music is still a labor intensive process, requiring highly skilled musicians to listen to a song and convert it note-by-note to written sheet music.  Until now, this has been a cottage industry, with individuals offering their services online and customer negotiating with them on a job-by-job basis.

Tunescribers.com takes a completely  different approach.  The customer visits the company’s website and simply enters the YouTube web address for a song.  The website automatically retrieves the song from YouTube and allows the customer to move sliders to specify the starting and ending point for the transcription (for example, “start at 0:40 and end at 3:00”).  The website then calculates the price, the customer chooses various options and places the order, and the company assigns the job to one of Tunescribers’ global team of transcription experts.  Within a few days, the customer receives complete sheet music in PDF format, as well as an MP3 file and an editable MusicXML file.

Because of the company’s automated order entry and global team, Tunescribers provides high quality custom sheet music for less than half the price of other US-based music transcription services.

Jeff Pepper, the company’s founder and CEO, was the founder and CEO of two successful local companies: ServiceWare Inc. which went public on the NASDAQ in 1998 and employed over 250 people at its peak, and Touchtown Inc., currently the nation’s largest provider of technology to keep senior living residents connected with their communities.