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If you even think you might like to sing in an all-male chorus or quartet, contact us See CONTACT PAGE.) An experienced barbershop director will help you know if you have the abilities to sing barbershop style. You may have these abilities lying latent in you because you simply have never used them. Our director may discover talents you do not even know you have. Try! You have nothing to lose and a lot of fun to gain.
A host of the wonderful benefits to being a Barbershopper is found at
http://www.barbershop.org/document-center/category/1-membership-documents.html
On the above web page select Electronic Press Kit - Membership.
All the tools you need to join our chapter are found there.
Select the New Member and Transfer application option. Please do not be daunted by the complexity of the application. It has grown up over the years and is designed to handle just about any challenge it meets -- other than being simple. Do not fret. Our chapter secretary will help you through every little step in processing it. The form is not really as daunting as it looks.
To give you an idea of the extent of help the national office provides to you, even before you become a member, study the information you will find on just this one web page:
http://www.barbershop.org/sing/singing-skills.html
Joining our chapter is considered a hobby by the Internal Revenue Service. You might find it interesting to look at the following eHow web page. It shows you some of the tax advantages of this hobby. eHow is located at
http://www.ehow.com/how_2183916_hobby-expenses-hobby-income.html
A letter from the IRS attesting to the tax exempt status of our society and all its chapters can be found at
http://www.barbershop.org/component/search/Internal%2BRevenue%2BSer.html?ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&areas[0]=plg_phocadlsearch
TO JOIN PLEASE CALL: Morgan Smith, VP of Memberships
Residence phone: 863 868-7268
Cell phone: 443 618-1561
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