Two reels of 3: the 3 symmetries

Richard Goss

Message 37161 · 3 Dec 2003 07:22:35 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Parallel reels are simply mistakes, the result of the RSCDS misinterpreting the notes of "dead" dances that they resurrected - Cadgers, for example. All of these reels should be "mirror" reels. If one changes all the "parallel" reels (in "trad" dances) for "mirror" all of the difficult transitions they involve will disappear.

The other reels to which you refer might be termed reels with corners. If one starts with first corners they are left shoulder, with second, right.