#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. Monte Thompson says:
    An instrument and a song can save a life. It has saved mine more than once. In the late 70s when I was around thirteen I found myself homeless and living on the streets. Winter in Colorado is a tough time to be outside and there weren't a lot of options for a kid in my situation back then. so I played for anyone who would walk by. They didn't call it busking back then. It wasn't really done in that part of the country so I had to keep moving. But it made me enough to pay for a little food and a couple of hours in a warm diner. Music has always been the thing I went to. It's my confidant and my consoler, a tool for the cathartic and cataclysmic. It has saved my life and still does. Maybe it has even helped me help others, who knows? It is good, and it's contagious and that is something that we all need. #ThePowerOfMusic #MyEpicMusicStory
    1. Joe says:
      > Hi Monte! Wow, truly incredible. I'm sorry you had to go through those rough times, but thank God music was there to help you get through them. I agree with you, music's power lies in the fact that it's a good thing that is contagious. Beautifully said! I hope you're still playing daily and wish you all the best, //Joe
  2. Rafailia Loupasaki says:
    When I was a teenager I used to ride my bike and listen to music through my mp3. Once I had a crash with a car... The only thing that I could do for several minutes was to stay down and keep listening to music. I remember that because in some way I think that music saved me from something really horrible. When I was a little girl and started playing music I was thinking that music is what I believe in, that if I was listening to music or if I was playing music nothing would ever harm me and at that crash it seems that it did save me.
    1. Joe says:
      > Hello Rafailia, Wow, what an epic story, I hope that you recovered fully from the accident. I can relate to your story (and many others can too, I'm sure). I also had a bicycle accident and in the ambulance I told the driver to please turn the music up! He did and it took the pain away :) Music does make us invincible! Best, //Joe
  3. Popescu Karina says:
    #ThePowerOfMusic #MyEpicMusicStory Ever since I was young the only kind of music I was hearing in the house was metal and rock. And today I'm very proud to be a metalhead thanks to my parents. My childhood wasn't great at all beacause of my classmates. They always thought that I was a freak only because I wear almost all the time spiked boots, spiked bracelets, chains all over my jeans, battlejackets, large rings and so on. But I went over and left nothing to stay in my way. My motto: Live the life to the fullest now and stop worrying about anything. Fuck the rules. Fuck the establishment. I have nothing to lose. Thats what metal music thought me and I'm proud about that. But the story doesn't end here. This year on 2 August I went to Rockstadt Extreme Fest and I had the most epic experience in my entire life. My friends and I did crowdsurfing on pallets,once we put gas mask on the face, we were crying Marco beacuse almost all the times other foreigners that were at least 400m of us to respond with Polo. We brought our electric guitars andf all sorts of intruments and started to play any song that we knew. The most funny thing was that we were singing, before a concert, this: An elephant was dangling On a spider’s web And because it didn’t break down, They got another elephant in. Two elephants were dangling On a spider’s web And because it didn’t break down, They got another elephant in. Three elephants were dangling On a spider’s web And because it didn’t break down, They got another elephant in. Four( five, six, seven, eight, nine ) elephants And what was more funny is that 80 or maybe 100 metalheads joined us and they were singing too. And the most epic part of all this festival was that the singer from Powerwolf came with the flag of my country and wore it during his performance. One of the best parts were that if you were hungry or thirsty and you had no money you could ask anybody and you undoubteedly received that thing. I love the fact that the metalheads help other people even if they know each other or not. We are like a big family spreaded all over the world that is united trough this music genre and its message.
    1. Joe says:
      > Hi Karina! Thanks so much for sharing your story! What an amazing insider view of the life of a metal head. It's amazing how music creates these tight communities of people, people who have only met through the music! And it's great to read that there is so much trust and kindness within these communities. Wishing you all the best, //Joe
  4. Paula says:
    It's no exaggeration to say that music saved my life. I come from a background where I was taught never to make noise. I would be thrown into a wall, screamed at, choked, told I was a monster, and never should have been born. I was a child, and it went on for years. When I got to university I joined a choir and everything changed. The director of the choir gave me the chance to sing my favourite song 'God Bless The Child' completely a Capella in our university's ancient music hall, in front of hundreds of people. They all heard me. For the first time in my life I made noise and didn't suffer for it. No mic, no nothing, and I filled that whole hall with the entirety of my soul. In that moment, music changed my life. I finished my degree in music, put in a hell of a lot of work, and I've been a professional noise maker (vocalist) ever since.
  5. Toma Lucian says:
    Friday night, at the local club, my girfriend was there listening music and texting me like we always do because I was a lot of time in another country. To surprinse her, I talk with the manager to let me do a gig in that night, wearing a mask.... When I played my set, she wrotes me : " I want to go home, this dj is a junk!" I was trully dissapointed! When I go outside to catch her, he was very happy and tells me : "I know you're music more then you!" soo.... Music is powerful than love sometime.
    1. Joe says:
      > Toma, thanks for sharing your story, very clever surprise for your girlfriend! Haha. Love and music go hand in hand! All the best, //Joe
  6. Margaret Rybicki says:
    #ThePowerOfMusic #MyEpicMusicStory My piano teacher said to me quietly when I was 12 years old, "do you have any hobbies"? I excitedly told her that I loved horse riding, and had just bought my own horse. She then said cuttingly, " perhaps you should spend more time horse riding, as I think that your mom should save her money on your piano lessons"!! I was determined that my own children should not be squashed so badly by a music tutor, so got them to teach themselves instruments, with the advice from musician friends. The eldest three are all brilliant guitarists, and all 3 could make you cry with joy at their vocals. The middle one has gone on to study music in uni. They have bought music back onto my life:)
    1. Joe says:
      > Margaret, thank you so much for sharing your story. My heart sank when I read what your music tutor told you. Some people don't understand how a message like that can alter one's life. I'm so glad that the power of music brought music back into your life through your kids. Thanks for giving hope and motivation to other parents and parents-to-be. //Joe
  7. Sebastian Nowak says:
    I was always a shy kid. I couldn't stand and talk in front of other people. School theater? Nightmare! Oral exam? Cold sweats. This rather unfortunate situation lasted untill my late teens! I could't even order a pizza witout stuttering...A truly hopeless case. Then I found music. Guitar to be specific. I honed my shredding skills in my bedroom, as probably all other young adepts do. Some of my friends also got into playing, so we jammed together. Word of mouth spread around, and lo and behold I got invited to play in a band. A real band playing shows! Wait...Shows? In front of people? LITERALLY in the spotlight? This is when I decided to change my life. I was done with being shy. I knew I'm good, and this was what I always dreamt to do. I joined the band, learnt the songs and prepared to my first show ever. I can't really pinpoint the feeling before going on stage that day. It was like being in a dream, but also feeling powerful, brave and excited to do something amazing. The show was a huge success, especially for me personally. I really started believing in myslelf that day. That and many other shows down the line taught me to be brave and to always face my challenges head on. 15 years later, I have a successful career and a great life. Even though I'm not a professional musician, I know that if I didn't pick up the guitar many years ago, I wouldn't be where I am now. Music made me who I am today. #ThePowerOfMusic #MyEpicStory
  8. Darryl Louis says:
    My very first instrument was the violin, indeed I loved this instrument for classical music then 2 years after I made a new friend who played the guitar. That instilled a new passion in me. Or course, at first it was a nylon guitar. Later I became interested in rock/metal music and I needed an electric guitar as learning riffs on a nylon guitar was kinda hard but that really developed my ear. Indeed I was lazy learning tablatures but yet I found it fun to listen and try to repeat the section I just heard. Years passed by and I became better at guitar, being able to improvise my own stuffs. However, equipments and guitars cost a lot, certainly in Mauritius. My 2 first electric guitars was good but the action high. Yet I guess when I watch people buying a very good guitar as a first and find it difficult to play, I think that maybe if the action of my guitars was low, it wouldn't have forced me to put much more effort - effort which have built my hand muscles. Indeed I'm still trying to upgrade everytime so that I can achieve my own sound, and the well-known artists surely have awesome gears which cost a lot. Besides, my country is so small that we don't even have concerts/masterclass from well-known artists, that would have been so cool. I certainly hope that one day I would be able to go to a concert and maybe meet someone :) Music as such has been beneficial specially in my depressing stage but also as a way to express myself since I tend to be shy in public. Anyway, I hope that one day I could produce my own album or EP.
    1. Joe says:
      > Hi Darryl! Thanks for sharing your story with us. I really hope that you can one day be surrounded by music, concerts, musicians and nice gear. I believe it can happen if you truly believe in the power of music. Wishing you all the best in your future, //Joe
  9. Nicholas says:
    I was 11, my parents were divorcing. There were fighting day and night and the weight of the fights always fell on me to try to reconcile or to exchange messages between them. Some months before then, my family not having the money to afford a sax, which was my dream instument, gave me a cheap guitar, which afterwards I got to exchangs for a cheap bass. Suring the divorce time, which lasted almost a year of daily fights and discussion, I found my way to cope with the stress, sadness and all the feelings that I had to process alone: playing the bass. At least once a day I would lock my self in the room and just play, play, play, eventhough I had just few months pf studying it. I felt my feelings were trown into the air through the sound of the bass; I could see them better that way, and could answer to those feelings with other notes. Music became my force, my therapy. I found in it the strength and refuge I needed to overcome that period. After that, I got a tattoo as a thank you to music (a bass clef) to make me survive turbulent times. Up to this day, 20 years later, music is still my source of energy, still not able to afford the sax, the bass is my best refuge. I don't get a monetary living out of music, but I get my heart beating because of it.
  10. Adonai Schlup says:
    Six years after my first tantrum as a toddler over an electric guitar at a shop window, I used a year's worth of allowance to buy my first electric. A Rockwood by Hohner ST-style guitat. Seven years after that, I was gifted with my first good guitar, an Epiphone SG G-400 Goth, and started actually taking this music stuff seriously and started practicing every day. Eleven years after that, I saw Chuck Berry in concert and was sure I made the right decision, struggling to be a working musician. Five years after *that*, I sold all of my gear, moved to Europe, thinking of just having a quiet life in a small town, and maybe even giving up the struggle of the music business. Then I saw Patti Smith live in Brussels, and all the frustration with the profession went out the window, giving way to eagerness, newfound passion, and sheer will to once again do what I have loved since before I can remember. Starting out again after some time away made me feel like meeting an old friend. And even now, as I am fighting to get back into shape, all I can feel is happiness and bliss. The first lick I've played correctly, with all the feeling I could muster gave me sparkle in my eyes. It will be hard, it might not lead anywhere grand, and it will certainly cost a lot of time, energy and money. But there's no way I'll give up the rush of making art from random noises again. #ThePowerOfMusic #MyEpicMusicStory
    1. Joe says:
      > Adonai, This is truly beautiful. It was really touching. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. Nor will I ever give up that rush! Best, //Joe

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