strathspey@strathspey.org:44789

Ron Mackey

RE: Two chords - a question

March 21, 2006, 12:09 a.m. (Message 44789, in reply to message 44768)

> May I first say how much I have enjoyed, both dancing and teaching, many
> of the newer dances in which the third and fourth couples begin on the
> opposite side of the set. I say "opposite" side rather than "wrong"
> side. 

	The very early Books use 'wrong' side.  No great need to get 
worked up about that.  It's quite useful to know that there is a, 
normally, 'right' side and a 'wrong' one.    

 The added variety, the altered progression and the mirror imaging
> are indeed a delight.  Many of them, of course, have been so cleverly
> written by our very accomplished and renowned John Drewry and I join you
> in thanking him for them, along with his many others. 

	Not only John Drewry but Derek Haynes, John Mitchell, Bill 
Forbes, and many others, not least one who is a regular contributer 
here.