Christian Gruber and Peter Maklar visited Heidi Schmidt and Klaus Wolfgang Wildner. The evening started at 8 p.m. and came to and end in the early morning hours on January 15, 2005, at 4 a.m. As the atmosphere was very relaxed, time passed very quickly.

The virtuoso guitar duo met rare and historical instruments. This alone may be called an event. Although this does not explain what really happened. Five persons in a room who couldn´t stop marveling, that´s how you can describe this evening.

Christian Gruber, Peter Makler, Augustin Wiedemann, Heidi Schmidt and Klaus Wolfgang Wildner jointly experienced new ways in the range of guitaristic; for each of them unimagined horizons of playing the guitar opened up. “Gruber & Maklar“ tested and played two quint bass guitars. These instruments were completely unknown to the two virtuosi ... and the quint bass guitars didn´t know what one can accomplish with them. Furthermore, various guitars were tried out in different combinations, including instruments of Hermann Hauser, Ignazio Fleta and Enrice Garcia. It´s not a secret to announce that there hasn´t been any public opportunity to listen to “Gruber & Maklar“ in such an outstanding variety of sound. That´s why they decided to catch up on that. As for the fascination regarding the quint bass guitars, Christian Gruber and Peter Makler share this unusually positive experience with Los Romeros, Eliot Fisk, Barbara Polasek, Augustin Wiedemann and actually with every guitarist who ever had a chance to hold one of these unique instruments in his hands. Quickly the idea of offering these instruments - with this unexplainable, pleasant sound - to a broad public emerged. Christian Gruber was bewitched by a "mystical" sound that prevented him from sleeping even after 4 a.m.
Christian Gruber and Peter Makler are very pleased by the formation of the Foundation. They could almost somatically experience the impulses coming from that association on that evening.

We are very much looking forward to future projects. In order to represent the Department of chamber music in the best way possible, they will invaluably contribute to the Foundation´s university.

It was a wonderful, "mystical" evening.

Heidi Schmidt, Klaus Wolfgang Wildner

Obermenzing, January 15, 2005


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