My latest self made tune. I made this up about a week ago. 
The title is in Frisian language and means more or less 'Spring Thoughts'.
Played on my beloved A-D tuned melodeon made by Karel van der Leeuw from Utrecht in the Netherlands.

TASCAM DR-08

Maitiidstinzen

2 X Schottis

A lovely reinlender/schottis. Written by Knut Olav Wang from Norway.
Played on my latest toy: an 'Anchor' melodeon in G-C

Herfra til Elgå

Klompendans or Clog Dance from the east of the Netherlands.
This tune is very typical for the music from that part of the country. And the style of playing is also typically eastern Dutch.
This tune is also known as 't Orgeltje (The Little Organ).
Played on a fine,  old Hohner 1040 in A. To me this instrument is just right for this kind of music.


Klompendans

Duitse Polka (litt. German Polka) is the old Dutch name for the Schottisch. This one is from the north west of the Netherlands.
Played on a C-F tuned melodeon made by Udo Schneeberg.

Duitse Polka

A tune form the 1988 album "Arne Modén spelar låtar från Rätan" by Arne Modén from Sweden. Arne was a fine and very unique player. He died in 2015.
I play this tune on an old Swedish Hagström Marita Modell 2 melodeon in G-C

Polska från Nästeln

Just a Mazurka from the province Noord Brabant in the southern part of the Netherlands. In the south the old musicians used to play big two rows with ten spoon basses: in Dutch ´lepelbasser´ or ´tienbasser´. This little C/F melodeon made by Udo Schneeberg from Saxony has the basses that come closest to those instruments.

Brabantse Mazurka

This waltz was written by Piet de Jong (1915 - 2004). Piet de Jong was a very fine traditional melodeon player from the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands (one of the last). In 1983 an album of his playing was released. In my early days as a melodeon player, this album was a great inspiration to me.

Wals van Piet de Jong

"The Dark Days before Christmas". A tune I wrote a few days ago. Such a December day when you come home at half past four in the afternoon and you have to put the light on already.
A rare thing: normally I hardly make up tunes in minor keys,

De Donkere Dagen voor Kerstmis

A tune from the repertoire of Piet de Jong (1915 - 2004).
Piet de Jong was one of the last traditional players from the Dutch island of Terschelling; and a  very fine one.
Piet had this tune from his father; hence the name Fathers's Polka.
And although it is called polka it's more like a schottische.

Vaders Polka

A lovely waltz written by the Norwegian melodeon player Tor Albrigtsen.

Guinness Waltz

Two tunes for the Heel-and-Toe dance from the Dutch island of Terschelling. Learnt by the playing of the great traditional player Piet de Jong (1915 - 2004) from the island.

Hakketoone

Yet another tune from the island of Terschelling. From the repertoire of the traditonal player Willem de Hek (1909 - 1979). He called it Zweedse Polka (Swedish Polka)
I must admit that this is a rather free and personal version. A good friend of mine with whom I used to play together had quite a different version. But the two did blend together rather well.
Although it is called Swedish Polka; when we played it at the Falun Folk Festival years ago, nobody knew the tune.

Zweedse Polka

A great tune form the book "The Fiddler of Helperby" 
A book containing tunes of Lawrence Leadley: architect and fiddler from Yorkshire,
Played on a melodeon made by Karel van der Leeuw from Utrecht / NL.
Tuning: A-D

Robert Tromp (melodeon)

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