If you missed it... Tonos.com did hit the sack...

[daniel]

Hmmm...glad I never signed up with them!

[MIKE BURN]

Quote:

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July 23, 2003



Dear members:





It is with regret that we inform you of the decision by the Tonos Board of Directors to close down Tonos Entertainment Inc.



After 4 years of operation and significant investments by its stockholders, the economic climate has made it impossible to continue operating.



We are exploring ways to keep Tonos going but unless a merger or new investment comes through quickly we will cease operations on September 1st.



In the interim, most of the features on Tonos will continue to work but all of the Industry Opportunities and the A&R drop box will be closed, as will the message boards as of July 23rd, 2003. T-mail will continue to operate and we encourage all the members to trade email address, etc. so that the contacts that have been made through Tonos can continue.



Music that has been submitted to Tonos prior to July 23, 2003 will be listened to, and we will work, as we always have, to have the music heard, considered, and signed by our contacts in the music industry. All A&R selections will be sent to the industry reps in question with the member's personal email addresses and phone numbers included in the packages they receive.



All of the Industry Opportunity Top Picks and A&R Drop Box Finalists and Semifinalists will be posted throughout the month of August on the Tonos Announcements forum of the Message Boards, so you can remain up-to-date on which members have been forwarded in all of the remaining Industry Opportunities and the A&R Drop Box for June and July.



Tonos wishes you all the best of luck. Please keep creating and keep your dreams alive.



Best,



Tonos Entertainment Inc.



A message from Carole Bayer Sager

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MIKE

[RonOnGuitar]

Last year I was thinking of giving a cyber-pal a Tonos membership as a birthday gift - now I'm happy that I didn't!



Mike, in the US "hit the sack" is slang for going to sleep/to bed ("hit the hay" is another slang term for that).



Maybe a better word for Tonos - and it's one of the few German terms most Americans know and use - would be "kaputt!".

[markhewer]

It's always sad to hear of yet another business bite the dust.