On June 1st 1988 I went to the Neu-Ulm trade office to register my guitar making company. The first guitar ever I made was in 1977. I built it from an old desk. The first real non-desktop-like guitar came in 1984. It was an acoustic one which I still play. From 1986 I began with the electric ones.

While pop music hasn't changed that much during the last 20 years there has been one huge change in my guitar design, namely in the year 1995.

Now I would say that the real story started with the development of my birdfish and its presentation at the Frankfurt Musikmesse in 1995. Then came the coco (which is out of production), the tesla model and finally the niwa.

As a tribute to this anniversary I have compiled a triplet of all three models in a very unique setup. There are 10 numbered sets, each consisting of a niwa, a tesla and a birdfish.