New York, November 18, 1999 - eTonal Media Inc.'s website WholeNote.com, The On-Line Guitar Community, was honored as one of the best community websites at New Media Magazine's Invision 99 Awards Festival. The festival took place in San Francisco on November 11-12, 1999. The award was presented in recognition of the unique community that WholeNote™ has created for guitarists of all skill levels and interests. At the WholeNote.com website, community members can take over 240 interactive guitar lessons, jam along with tracks that they design for their own practice purposes, review extensive information on guitar-related equipment and publications, and share their knowledge and ideas on all guitar-related topics.

WholeNote™ was granted a bronze medal for Social/Community Projects at the awards festival, where winners were selected from among 1,200 submissions. New Media Magazine joins numerous web authorities who have already lavished praise upon the WholeNote™ website, including Netscape, Lycos, HotBot, Dogpile, Project Cool, Blue Web'n, the Internet Public Library, and the Kim Komando Radio Show. WholeNote™ has received top billing from every search engine and directory that has reviewed the site. The site was also featured in OpenNote (http://www.steinberg.net/opennote/), Steinberg's on-line magazine for musicians, which stated, "WholeNote offers so much to the guitarist it's hard to know where to start."

WholeNote's creators, Christopher Sung and Sean Kelly, who have been both professional guitarists and computer programmers, developed the WholeNote concept and website at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Mr. Sung and Mr. Kelly dazzled visitors at the awards festival by ripping out licks on an electric guitar and then entering them into WholeNote's LessonEngine, instantaneously allowing onlookers to review them as guitar tablature and to play them back at varying speeds.

"I think we're beginning to see a new era of community on the Web, in which websites empower their members with specialized tools that are uniquely suited to their interests," said Mr. Sung. "We're very excited to see that leading web authorities such as New Media Magazine are recognizing the many ways in which WholeNote™ is raising the concept of a community website to new levels."

About eTonal Media, Inc.

Since it was founded in 1999, eTonal Media, Inc. has focused on the development of the website WholeNote.com - The On-Line Guitar Community. WholeNote™, the first full-service community website for guitarists, is an on-line community that seeks to bring together guitarists of all interests and skill levels. The community provides guitarists with a broad variety of learning and authoring tools, access to extensive content including lessons and resource reviews, and enables members of the community to share their knowledge and ideas on all guitar-related topics through discussion forums and chat rooms. Among the exciting new technology that WholeNote™ provides to guitarists is its LessonEngine software, which allows anyone to create an interactive lesson on-line and post it in WholeNote's Lesson Directory, where others can view it in guitar tablature and listen to it in MIDI playback. Further details can be obtained at the website www.wholenote.com.

"WholeNote" is a trademark of eTonal Media, Inc.

For further information please contact:

Jim Burger
eTonal Media, Inc.
biz@etonal.com