#MyEpicMusicStory Contest

Tell us your Epic Music Story for a chance to win a 200€ Thomann voucher!

Contribute your story and win a 200-Euro Thomann voucher!
With our “Epic Stories” we have told you amazing, crazy and entertaining stories from the world of music. But we believe that there are many more stories worth telling about the power of music. And yours is one of them!

Get involved!
We want to hear your story! Share your personal “Epic Story” (or that of your band) with the community in this competition. Tell us about your personal experience, how the power of the music manifested itself in your life!


Which “musical” event was influential? Has music ever saved you, initiated a change in your life or moved you deeply?


Make sure that…

You write your story here on the t.blog in the comment or under the Facebook post. From all entries a jury will select the most beautiful ones and award them with a 200-Euro voucher from Thomann. We are also planning to publish a selection of stories on our social media channels.

Make sure to use the following hashtags#ThePowerOfMusic #MyEpicMusicStory

The competition runs until 22.10.2018 (midnight). We will contact the winners directly by message on the respective channel and announce them here and on our social media channels. You can find the full terms and conditions below.

We wish you good luck ? and look forward to reading your Epic Stories. ✍


Here are some true-story examples from our staff members at Thomann…

To get you even more motivated, here are a few stories for you to read…

Epic Stories (click here)


Conditions of Participation

Note: Participation in an online raffle and the chance to win is detached and independent of an order at Thomann GmbH! This raffle is not affiliated with Instagram or Facebook and is not sponsored or organised by them in any way.

Participation in online raffles on the Thomann blog, on the Facebook and Instagram pages as well as other media of Thomann and their implementation are governed by the following provisions:

§ 1 Contest

The organiser is:

Thomann GmbH
Hans-Thomann-Str. 1
96138 Burgebrach
VAT Nr.: DE257375233
Tax Number (DE): 207/132/90050
Registry Court: Amtsgericht Bamberg
Registry Number: HRB 5862
Location of registration: Burgebrach
Representing chief executive: Hans Thomann

§ 2 Participation

(1) Only persons of full age are entitled to participate. Anyone who wishes to enter the competition will only take part in the competition within the respective competition period and will therefore only be entitled to the prize if the entry has been submitted within this period.

(2) In order to take part in this competition, a story with the above content must be told – with which medium as an aid – video, photo or text – the participant is free to choose. The article will be published on one of the own social channels and provided with the hashtags mentioned above. By posting the competition entry, the participant agrees to these conditions of participation. Only one competition entry may be submitted per participant. The participant is responsible for being contacted by Thomann, for example by activating the message function of his profile / account.

Among all correctly posted entries a Thomann-Jury will award the most outstanding ones. Which stories the jury awards as “most outstanding” is up to the jury. It decides subjectively as well as in terms of content, presentation and so on.

The prize is a Thomann voucher or Thomann credit in the amount of 2oo euros. It is planned that only one contribution per band can win, even if different band members tell the same story. The jury will decide how many stories will be awarded and how many will win a voucher based on the entries.

(3) The stories will be awarded monthly and the winner of the 200 Euro Thomann voucher will be announced in the social media at the beginning of the following month. The duration of the competition and thus the number of prizes distributed is at Thomann’s discretion. The expected term ends on 22 October 2018 at 23:59:59.

§ 3 Contest exclusion

(1) Employees of Thomann GmbH, affiliated cooperating partner as well as their relatives (e.g. parents, siblings or spouses) are excluded from participation.

(2) In case of violation of these terms and conditions, especially by the usage of prohibited technologies or other manipulation, the organiser preserves the right to exclude persons from the contest. Under these or other violations prizes can be retroactively revoked and reclaimed.

§ 4 Execution and processing

(1) The winner of the voucher will be contacted by the organiser at the beginning of the following month via the medium with which he published his entry, Instagram, YouTube, t.blog or Facebook. You will be notified and can be published on the Musikhaus Thomann Facebook page (www.facebook.com/musikhausthomann) and on the t.blog (https://www.thomann.de/blog/de/), stating your first name, surname and place of residence. The winners expressly agree to this form of publication. The winners will confirm to the organiser that they accept the prize and provide the information necessary for the transfer of the prize.

The claim to the prize lapses if the award or transmission of the prize cannot take place. This applies in particular if a winner does not confirm acceptance of the prize in due time. In this case the organiser reserves the right to determine a new winner by draw.

(2) The prizes will be sent by the organiser or a third party commissioned by him to the postal address specified by the winner by forwarding, parcel service or post.

Delivery is free of charge. Any additional transport costs and customs duties shall be borne by the winner. In the event that delivery is made through a carrier, the carrier will contact the winner to arrange a delivery date.

(4) An exchange of the winnings, a cash payment, or a possible compensation is excluded.

(5) The claim to the prize or compensation cannot be assigned to third parties.

§ 5 Privacy

(1) The participant agrees, that the organiser will store all information required for the conduct of the contest for the duration of the contest. The organiser has partially authorised third parties (“cooperation partners”) to perform services necessary to execute and successfully conclude the contest. Provided information of the participants will be stored by those cooperation partners only for the duration of the contest. All provided data will be permanently erased after conducting and the finalisation of the contest.

By participating in this contest, the participant agrees that provided data will be processed by third parties and in particular that the organiser will provide said data to third parties.

The participants can revoke their agreement to the processing of their data at any time. Given that case, it might be necessary to exclude the participants from the contest. Furthermore, participants are entitled to all rights provided by the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz in terms of disclosure and correction in respect to their provided data.

All the aforementioned rights can be received and perused by sending a written message to the this postal address:

Thomann GmbH
z. Hd. des Datenschutzbeauftragten
Hans-Thomann-Str. 1
96138 Burgebrach

or alternatively they can be requested and received via email: [social@thomann.de]

(2) The organiser is obligated to protect the participants privacy and guarantees to process the data according to the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, the Telemediengesetz as well as the Europäischen Datenschutzrichtlinie (95/46/EG) and the EU Datenschutzrichtlinie für elektronische Kommunikation 02/58/EG.

In this regard we also refer to our general privacy regulations which can be found at: http://www.thomann.de/de/tho_privacypolicy.html

§ 6 Liability

(1)  Thomann GmbH will be freed of any and all obligations after delivery of the prize.

(2)  Thomann GmbH is not liable for bankruptcy of a cooperating partner or consequences following a bankruptcy or for these occurrences interfering with the conduct of the contest.

§ 7 Other

(1) Redress by way of the courts is precluded

(2) The law of the Federal Republic of Germany is the only law that is applicable with the exception of any regulations of international private law that must be followed.


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Comments 74

  1. Wojciech Tom says:
    ==================================================== You feel that rhythm and beat in your heart, And every riff in your head up to the night… And when you suffer, and no one can see, Only those moments with music help you to live… You have a friendship with those who you play with, as with brothers and sister you happen to miss… No mather what music, mather the notes. Mather the feeling, your rhythm and soul… You take these notes to another dimension, To easy your anger or show that you love… Embed your notes in the air with the sound. You craft your music, you mend you heart… You show your love, love will come back With message that you mend another heart… ==================================================== I just happen to see this contest 2 hours ago, and I said I had to writing something. This is my first ever text/lyrics/etc of this kind and it is very close to my heart. Music helped my enormously, although I don't have enough time to spend as I would like. I love to create something and I had to do this. Thank you, if you stopped-by and read.
  2. Diego says:
    I started as a "low economy kid/guy" living in an environment not really connected with modernity/ contemporaneity and neither with music culture or a sense of present and evolution, and that lasted very very long, and because of the place I live in, I had no chance to make real my dream about going abroad and meet more open minded people and acquire and share more knowledge/music and heart with like-minded people I admit I had difficulties to find in my surrounding for decades. But since the beginning music has always been, along with my determination and heart, the gateway to occasionally make that real. Thanks to music I had the chance to meet other musicians, sound designers and artists, except for very few around my area, the most at the beginning online, and after, some of them for real in their own countries, and thanks to that, during years I wen to to UK, Germany, Poland and around north Italy. Nowadays I still make it and breathe music everyday and that took me out, very often, from a "real life" (which at the end of the day you get to understand is not so real...) made of any sort of difficulties and depression, involving the area and many people around, to build a "more real" world/life made of freedom, heart, ego-less power, without borders defined by geography, culture or gender, and nowadays I have even some virtual friends (since they live quite far from me, in other countries) which once I only had the chance to admire as professionals, while now I can speak with and share and learn from very often. All this done by music since day one (not listing here how many of them had the chance to speak with or even meet in person). This still motivates me and keep me going and changed even my personality in a positive way (and of course empowered my music making and helped me in evolving, growing up, becoming more independent from the "outside", and of course learning new stuff about music, sounds and art productions) and you get to learn there is something which connected all of us which flows through music and energy. #ThePowerOfMusic #MyEpicMusicStory
    1. Joe says:
      > Hi Diego! Thanks so much for sharing you epic story with us. It's amazing how you managed to change your uninspiring environment into one that is full of music and positivity! You really followed your dream and didn't give up. I like the way you put it: music builds a "more real world/life made of freedom, heart, ego-less power, without borders defined by geography, culture or gender". I'm sure a lot of people can relate to this! Thanks again for reminding us that this is what the Power of Music is! Best, //Joe
  3. Ivana says:
    I remember myself when I was only 7, listening some pop/rock playlists on my sisters discman while jumping on the bed and dancing in front of the mirror pretending like I was having my own concert in a big concert hall. Back then I had a little keyboard, which I later replaced with a grand digital piano as I started taking music lessons in local music school. Singing was and today is, my true love. Some people say love goes through the stomach, but in my case, love goes through the music. After my 21th birthday, I started singing in acoustic duet and - just like that - I didn't had to pretend like I was having a concert anymore, I had one almost every weekend! Oh, and about love...the first song we played together when we met was Ready for love by Bad Company. No_words_needed. :) #ThePowerOfMusic #MyEpicMusicStory
    1. Joe says:
      > Hi Ivana, What a great story of a dreamer on a "bed stage" to a real stage performer every weekend! Very happy that the power of music took you this far! Thanks a lot for sharing your story with us and I'm wishing you all the best! //Joe
  4. Dom says:
    Back when I was in high school I really liked one girl. She was recording cover videos for youtube in her spare time and had an amazing voice. Since I played the guitar, I decided to invite her to one rehersal and see if we could become acoustic duo. Luckily, she sad yes and we started to practice for our first gig. Now, 7 years later, we have dozens of gigs, 1 reward from the state championship and some beautiful moments behind us. Withouth the music I would probably never have the guts to approach her, but now we live together and I'm about to ask her to merry me. :) #thepowerofmusheic #myepicmusicstory
    1. Joe says:
      > Hi Dom! Wow, amazing! Music gives us courage, it's true. Good to hear that you approached her and that it has taken you both this far!! Wishing you both all the best! <3 //Joe
  5. Nicola says:
    I got into music only earlier this year. For my birthday I received an Ukulele from my friend as a joke present, as we had joked about us starting a band before christmas and I would play ukulele. In feburary I was given an odd shaped box and there it was, my uke. I was suprised she actually bought it. I doubt I would have learned to play if it wasn't for my boyfriend. He adores music and not a day goes by without him picking up his guitar or tapping out a tune on the piano, so I decided I would learn a song for him and ended up loving it. I play most days now and duet with my boyfriend but he has to slow down so I can keep up ? but I love how happy he looks when we play together or when I show him new things I've learnt. I'm currently learning some guitar and really enjoying it. Music is a wonderful addition to anyones life and it's never to late to learn how to play! Happy strumming! #thepowerofmusic #myepicmusicstory
    1. Joe says:
      > Nicola, thanks for sharing your epic story, I'm glad your friend followed through with her/his decision to buy you that uke! Music is that perfect addition to anyone's life, like you said, it's like salt to food! Hope you and your boyfriend continue to play, if you keep at it he won't have to slow down for you, I'm sure you'll get there. Best, //Joe

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