It all started four decades ago with "Hammond Sensations" when the pianist, accordionist and arranger completed his first recording in stereo. Klaus Wunderlich was born 1931 in Chemnitz, as son of a police-inspector. Klaus was seven years of age when he received his first piano. A few years were sufficient for him to grasp the basics . "I did not inherit musicality from my parents, and I never attended a school of music either" as Klaus answered questions about roots of his talent. The reason for finding his way into music is that as a child he had "always been weakish and hence a lone walker". When the Municipal Theatre was partly destroyed by bombs during the Second World War, the cast moved rehearsals to the gym room of a nearby grammar school. "That's when they hit upon me - 'there's someone in the 5th term, who plays the piano quite well' - and so it happened that already at the age of 16 I became a performer". However, light music eventually attracted him more than classical repertoire. Klaus arranged and composed for dance-bands, eventually leaving with a group of fellow musicians for West Germany in 1951. "Before I encountered the organ, I worked as a pianist and accordionist. I went on tour with a bar trio. In those days, the pianos I had to play were often in bad condition and out of tune. Then, in 1955, when the first Hammond Organs appeared on the market, our band-leader, the guitarist, had the thought of hiring such an instrument (buying was impossible - the price of DM 8.500,- was utopian) and to appear on stage as a bar trio with 'new sound'. - That's when it 'got' me, even though at first I wasn't enthusiastic at all, I was a fan of jazz. But in any case it was better to play on a primitive Hammond Organ than on a misadjusted piano". Even at this stage his slogan was: "The organ is my life!".