This documentations tells about the origins and historical circumstances of the German Walddzither in the 1930ies in Middle-West-Germany.

Contemporaries told me their stories and their personal relationsship to this instrument, that was the musical basis for a whole generation.

(self-published 2003, Eigenverlag, 96 pages, 210 x 270mm,  colour-digital printed, written in German.)
What people told me in my first book, I had to find out this time by studying clippings of odd documents, copies of old instrument catalogs and fotographing rare instruments.

The outcome was a never thought connection to portuguese instruments, founded with the special historical background of the city Hamburg by the clever merchant and luthier C.H. Böhm.

(self-published 2005, Eigenverlag, 52 pages, 210 x 270mm, colour-digital printed, written in German.)