About us: Ingo Boehme
"My path of sound"
Ingo Böhme
I am a self-taught musician, researcher, instrument maker, businessman and entrepreneur for 40 years.
In 1978, I was employed for 7 months as a typesetter and printer in a publishing house. During this time I decided to never work as an employee again. I enjoyed working fast and effectively.
A long journey began, to self-employment, to carpentry, to sound. A lot of privat moves led to new adventures again and again. Many journeys to fairs, for seminars and as sound journeys into nature have opened new horizons and perspectives for me.
At a festival in the wilderness of Idaho in 1982 I experienced how I made music intuitively for the first time. Without training, without musical knowledge, carried by the group, I played without thinking, invisibly guided. This was to become my vision, which I pass on through my work until today: intuitive music.
It is a great pleasure for me to pass on my enthusiasm for sound instruments and my love for acoustic sounds and to inspire others. The most beautiful thing is to see the glow in the eyes when an instrument touches the heart with its sound.
Today I am a father of two of my own and one adopted child, as well as a stepfather of two of my wife's children. Soon, I will be a proud grandfather to a total of 8 grandchildren.
Chronology
1982 | Foundation of instrument making |
1982 - 1986 | Research trips for sound instruments through the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada |
1986 | Own workshop and sale of Tongue Drums to kindergartens and at flea markets |
1988 | First wholesale of own instruments and inclusion of instruments from other instrument makers in own portfolio |
1990 | Arts and crafts markets, eco fairs and the Frankfurt music fair |
1996 | Relocation of the company with production to Heuchelheim near Gießen, extensive wholesale of instruments from all over the world, djembes, didgeridoos, gongs, singing bowls |
Competition "New Instruments for Music Therapy", organized by the University in Hamburg | |
1997 | Construction of first Monochords |
Handing over of the production to former employees | |
1999 - 2000 | Sabbatical year |
2000 | Visit Namm Show in Los Angeles, since then distribution of High Spirits flutes and McNally Strumsticks |
Start of the tradition "Journeys to the sounds of nature" | |
Start of sales to USA to Gabriele Schwibach | |
2002 | Establishment of the own practice Martina Gläser for sound - connection of massages with tones and sounds |
2003 | Development of Soundwave and Singing Chair with Martina Gläser as body therapist |
2005 | Marriage to Martina Gläser-Böhme |
2006 | Sound Healing Congress in Santa Fe, New Mexico and to a music therapy conference in St. Louis with Gabriele Schwibach |
Expansion of the exclusive distribution in the USA | |
2007 | "Festival for Creative Sound" |
2008 | "Journeys to the Sounds of Nature" in Arizona and to the University of Arizona to Barbara Crowe |
2009 | Start of the tradition "Klangzeit" - 24 hours of music - without language |
2010 | "Journeys to the Sounds of Nature" to Baja California, Palenque and Mexico City |
After separation from old business partner - relocation of the production to Sweden to the company Auris and a woodshop near Greifswald | |
2011 | Private move to Klein-Jasedow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the home of my wife. |
2012 | Relocation of the company to the neighbouring village Pulow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with the focus on production |
2013 | Establishment of the production with a new hall and new machines in Pulow |
Relocation privately and with practice to Pulow | |
2014 | Development of the Monchair |
2015 | Major order from Asia, extension of the workshop, expansion of the machine park |
"Journeys to the sounds of nature" and workshop trip to Miami, Florida, Phoenix Arizona, Sequoia National Park, San Francisco | |
2016 | Workshop trip San Diego, California |
2017 | Workshop trip Portland,Oregon |
Frankfurt Music Fair | |
2018 | First participation in the Namm Show in Los Angeles with Gabriele Schwibach, Hokema Kalimbas and Metal Sounds |
"Journeys to the sounds of nature" to Alabama Hills in the White Mountains, Calif. | |
2019 | Therapy Fair Stuttgart |
2020 | Namm Show Los Angeles with Gabriele Schwibach, Hokema Kalimbas and Metal Sounds |
"Journeys to the sounds of nature" in Joshua Tree National Park, California | |
Private move to Karnin, with the practice in Klotzow | |
Development of new website and new invoicing software | |
2021 | 1st Digital Namm Show in L.A. |
First Zoom Seminars |
I also tell my biogenesis in an essay with many pictures