In March 31st 2019, Roman Giza's stick was stolen from him. In just one week the whole community came together and raised a little over 2000 Euros to buy him a new Chapman Stick. With this amazing contribution and a significantly big help from Emmett Chapman we where able to buy him a brand new Stick, a gig bag, international shipping and still pay for most of custom charges. This is the moment Roman got his brand new "Katana", on the 9th of may, exactly 40 days after. To all those that contributed, no matter how much, we thank you, you are true heroes – all names are listed in the end.
I am honored to be have you as friends! Love and light!
The background music is a recording by Roman Giza playing "Ai Mouraria", a Portuguese song.

Nice emotions...thank you Rodrigo. I'm so lucky to speak spanish and understand everything he expressed in his own language.

So happy to see Roman playing again.

Kudos to everyone!

Peace

Olivier

Beautiful. Thanks for that, Rod.

Thank you Rod for doing this.

Great story, great community, great people play the stick. Amazing instrument, amazing energy. In a world full of shit, flowers bloom.

Amazing, just amazing.

Awesome, Rod!

As I said in your post on Facebook, you are a good friend Rod. A touching video. In a world where bad news is the norm, your video restores faith in humanity.

Man, while we all have our misgivings about the...incident. It reminds me to not waste time on anger.

If ROman does find the time and opportunity some time - I'd love to hear him speak for 5 minutes on his tuning of choice.


(technical aside - unscalloped railboard frets???????)