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Rosemary Coupe

Re: Request for written instructions for Australian Ladies

Oct. 9, 2001, 8:33 p.m. (Message 27829, in reply to message 27811)

My memory accords with yours, Ian. I first learned Bob Campbell's Australian
Ladies in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1984. At that time I was given a photocopy of
a closely typed page of instructions, on which the original "change places
giving the left hand" for bars 23-24 and 31-32 had been crossed out and
replaced by "change places giving the right hand." That would, of course,
have been some years after the publication of the dance in its present form
in Glasgow Assembly, but does indicate the way the dance evolved.
Incidentally, my copy of Glasgow Assembly gives an unusual printing history:
it was first published "in part" in 1970 (with or without Australian
Ladies?), and the "first full printing" took place in 1976. The
TAC-sponsored reprint was in 1982.

Regards

Rosemary Coupe
Vancouver