accordion, valse musette Fred Van Gestel
Valse a l'honeur du Printemps (Score in song description)

I wrote this little waltz for the spring to come.

Normally, in the second half of March, we have something like 15 or 20 degrees celsius and trees are in blossom. I took the picture this morning from my office window, we had -5 degrees and as you can see - trees are still leafless. Snow arrived November last year and it it's still there...

When I play musette waltzes, everyone in the house gets happy, wants to dance and smile. It is my way to play that snow away and get some southern French atmosphere. This one I wrote two weeks ago - my little daughter (almost 4) just loves it and asked me this morning to put it on SoundCloud - so other people could dance as well and be sure that spring will come very very soon :)

I couldn't resist that sweet request, so I recorded it. I had to put that usual perfectionism aside and uploaded it, quick and dirty as it is.

Played on a Weltmeister Cassotto 414 accordion. Recorded in one take, using two t.bone SC100II mics, that old Roland VS880 recorder, effects (reverb, compression, limiter) were done with MultiTrackStudio, Seems that I finally found a way to get that loudness, haha!

If someone likes to have the score - here you find it for free:
vangestel.de/scores/accordion/...u-printemps.pdf

I hope you enjoy it.