The
Barbershop Harmony Society is the world's largest all-male singing
organization, with more than 30,000 singers in more than 800 chapters
in the United States and Canada. Another 4,000 barbershoppers are
members of affiliated organizations in Australia, Germany, Great
Britain, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and
Sweden.
The Barbershop Harmony Society is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
It is home to the Old Songs Library, the world's largest privately
held collection of sheet music, containing 750,000 sheets and 125,000
titles from the heyday of Tin Pan Alley. The Heritage Hall Museum of
Barbershop Harmony serves as a repository for barbershop memorabilia,
early recordings, costumes, research materials and historical documents
tracing the roots of the barbershop style.
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