1948 Gevaphone Record with Young Pieter J.C. Vedder Playing his Accordion for his Marine Brother

At the local café in Groessen, The Netherlands, Mr. Holland, also coalman and grocer, had set up a make-shift studio.

 That make-shift studio came from Apeldoorn, a bigger city in the Province of Gelderland.

GELUIDSTECHNISCH BUREAU - SOUND TECHNICAL BUREAU

JAC van Wijk, APELDOORN

Once again: Grateful to NIMH The Netherlands for extracting its contents! See for more info link below from first post at bottom where I explain about donating these records to the Dutch Institute for Military History

Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Ministerie van Defensie

Photo is from a couple of years earlier where Pieter played on his Hohner.

This recording he did with his beloved Soberano.

Husband Pieter playing on his accordion two songs for his Marine brother serving in Indonesia...

Aan de over van de Beuly in Dutch

On the banks of the Breuly

Between Ooy and Zevenaar

A frog sat loudly crying

With his hands in his hair

Dear little one, the mother spoke

See yonder that stork

't Is the murderer of you father

He ate him with skin and hair

Dammit, spoke the little

Did the tall one do that

When later I'm big and strong

I'll sure beat him up

The little one grew up

Again he saw that stork

And you won't believe it

He ate him with skin and hair

On the banks of the Breuly

Between Ooy and Zevenaar

A frog sat crying loudly

With his hands in his hair

Cheerio Holland

 I sing you a song full of sway and pleasure 

Of Holland, proud but small 

The land of the dunes, the forests and sea 

Where all those mills are 

From the flower bulb fields, the butter and cheese 

Foremost of Dutch generosity 

Where, that they are free again 

And again be so welcoming 

There I prefer to be of all 

refrain: 

Cheerio! Cheerio! In Holland there they sing like this 

Away with the worries and away with the sadness 

We will get there, even though we are not there yet 

Because the boys of Tromp and Piet Hein 

They will not get them down 

We had the moth in it for five years 

But now things are turning 

And Dutch we want to be 

The Dutch engineers are known 

They make this country great 

They dig channels and dampen the sea 

Exactly if it is just a ditch 

And it is again so beautiful in the forest or the heath 

The Betuwe and in the Gooi 

And the girls, blast it 

That is Holland's glory 

With that Holland is so beautiful 

refrain 

That country is known for its Deventer Cake 

Oysters from Zierikzee 

Pipes from Gouda, its Peace Palace 

And by its Heroes of the Sea 

Because of its great civility, Moerdijk (technoport), K.L.M (Royal Dutch Airlines) 

The folklore of Volendam 

And Dutch prosperity 

The good old gin 

That wonderful drink from Schiedam 

refrain 

On June 17, 1949 Pieter's Parents had their 25th Wedding Anniversary but the two boys were not yet home...

After numerous letters and this very unique Gevaphone greeting, the brothers finally got home after the 25th wedding anniversary in 1949... 
Toon (Anthony) departed from Indonesia on September 3, on the Vessel Kota Inten.

Toon was in the possession of some personal items from one of his comrades that did NOT make it back out alive. He was not able to deliver them to the young Marine's Parents though but requested Pieter to do it for him...
So Pieter went to the place of Elst, as he recalls, amidst the many fruit trees in that area. He remembers vividly the emotions that came with that. 
Of course, they invited him inside and asked several questions to which Pieter only could reply, sorry I cannot give you any more information as I was not there...
He never will forget the very emotional impact it had on his young life!

While the two older brothers served, Pieter was summoned to serve. 
One of the City Council Members advised Pieter's Dad to request dispensation as he already had two of his older sons serving at war and he needed a hand for his greenhouses as he himself had severe back problems.
So Pieter drove with his Dad, in their Volkswagen Beetle to Arnhem, the capital of their Province of Gelderland, to see Dr. Hoefnagels a famous specialist for back problems at the Arnhem Hospital.
Somewhat timidly Pieter's Dad stepped in at the doctor's office who asked him in some surly and authoritarian way, 'what are the problems?!'
Pieter's Dad shyly replied: 'My back' to which the doctor snarled: 'What back, where back?!'
To which Pieter's Dad said: 'If YOU don't know where the back is, I'm at the wrong place here.' 
Pieter's Dad turned around and Pieter can still hear his voice saying: 'You just go and serve, I don't need this!'
All in all, Pieter was rather proud of him, regardless the result of this visit.

And thus, husband Pieter had to serve!

 He proudly did!

Related links:
72 Years Later... Gevaphone Spoken Letters to Marine Brother Employed Overseas | previous post
1948 Gevaphone Record with Young Pieter Playing his Accordion for Brother in Uniform | previous post
72 Years Later... Gevaphone Spoken Letters to Military Brother Employed Overseas | previous post

Pieter's Music Booklet from WWII Era | how Pieter learned to play his first accordion