"The Flowers Of Edinburgh"

Bruce Herbold

Message 55762 · 1 May 2009 02:10:30 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

I've shared those suspicions for a long time -- also perhaps Jessie's
Hornpipe was double figures of eight across. Although in both dances the 3s
have lots of opportunities to do something other than dance and maybe that
was the point, but still....

Bruce Herbold
San Francisco

On 4/30/09, Iain Boyd <xxxx_xxxx_xxx@xxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
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> Greetings all,
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> Does anyone have any information about the origins of this dance and,
> perhaps, early instructions that might confirm my belief that it was
> originally a two-couple dance rather than a three-couple dance as the
> Society published it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Iain Boyd
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Bruce Herbold