Set and Turn Corners(was Irish Rover)

Ian Brockbank, DIGITAL Software Engineering

Message 10697 · 6 Feb 1998 19:05:31 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Jeanetta McColl wrote:

> It is my impression that the first time the "turnng with two hands with
skip-
> change" appeared was in "The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh" published in
1948.

I believe that was just codifying what was done in Edinburgh, since it was
an Edinburgh dance. From Stanley Wilkie's comments at our teachers class
on Wednesday, it sounds like originally either pdb or skip-change were
correct, and Miss Milligan, when asked to commit to one, picked pdb. When
she made this decree, Edinburgh Branch decided to be perverse and do it
skip-change, and have done so ever since.

So it dates back almost to the start of the society, but only as a regional
variation.

Cheers,

Ian
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