{"id":5,"date":"2011-05-12T23:25:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/beta\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:44:06","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TuneStruck (toon&#8217; struk) adj.<\/strong> \u2013 Mentally overtaken by an irresistible urge to sing barbershop harmony. Described by musical scholars (and a few doctors) as a sudden condition brought on by exposure to four-part chords and toe-tapping tags. Symptoms include spontaneous harmonizing, uncontrollable smiling, and an unhealthy obsession with dominant sevenths. In short: this quartet has it bad.<\/p>\n<p>But they weren\u2019t always this way. No one is born TuneStruck. It starts innocently \u2014 maybe a tag here, a polecat there. Then, before you know it, you&#8217;re rearranging your weekends around rehearsals and wondering if your haircut is \u201cbarbershop enough.\u201d And judging by this group\u2019s scalp situation, we\u2019re pretty sure the longer you&#8217;ve been struck, the more hair you lose. Coincidence? We think not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WARNING:<\/strong> This condition is highly contagious. During performances, you may experience a phenomenon known as \u201cexpanded sound\u201d \u2014 rich, resonant chords that can produce a distinct ringing sensation in the ears. But don\u2019t worry: simply listening is rarely dangerous. It\u2019s when you <em>join in<\/em> that it really takes hold. Catch these guys after a show, and they\u2019ll gladly give you a personalized dose \u2014 up close and in glorious harmony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepare yourself\u2026 You\u2019re about to be TuneStruck!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- contentdata--><!-- innercontent--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TuneStruck (toon&#8217; struk) adj. \u2013 Mentally overtaken by an irresistible urge to sing barbershop harmony. Described by musical scholars (and a few doctors) as a sudden condition brought on by exposure to four-part chords and toe-tapping tags. Symptoms include spontaneous &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/?page_id=5\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12799,"href":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/12799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunestruckquartet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}