william sinkler darby together with fred gaisberg made the very first gramophone recording on dutch soil here in the netherlands
it was ''het oude wilhelmus'' it is now our nation's national anthem it wasn't in 1899 when darby and gaisberg recorded it
it was played by het haagsche regiment muziek corps and recorded in amsterdam

- darby and gaisberg relaxing inbetween recorings in a hotel room in viena both enjoying austrian pipes (not that one of fred's chamber slipers has fallen off fred's foot to reveal a thick wool sock
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darby & gaisberg on their euro recording tour of 1899
in 1899 the dutch national anthem was wien neerlans bloed the song was about white skined blond haired bue eyed people living behind the sand dunnes
after the second world war it was deemed too rasistic and the anthem ''het wilhelmus'' was adopted as the nations oficial anthem even dough it had been used as such in royal occasions since the 1930s
dutch neo nazi's still use ''wien neerlands bloed'' wich is strange because the original dutch nazi's used another song ''wij zijn de zwarte soldaten'' we are the black soldiers wich was true in every sence of the word black dese guys where worse than the waffen ss!
greetings
tino