strathspey@strathspey.org:44790

Ron Mackey

Re: Two chords - a question (as to definition)

March 21, 2006, 12:09 a.m. (Message 44790, in reply to message 44779)

> Eike,
> 
> There are many four-couple dances which begin (each round) with the couples 
> three and four on the opposite side.  It has been traditional (but nowadays 
> increasingly questioned) to begin with everyone in a normal four-couple longwise 
> set and for the dance's music to begin with two chords, the first for the 
> usual bows and curtseys, the second for the lower two couples to change sides 
> prior to the actual outset of dancing.

	Not wishing to upstage anyone but while you are on a 
learning curve Eike there are, also, quite a few dances in which the 
2nd and 4th couple start on the 'wrong' side.