strathspey@strathspey.org:44852

Jock McVlug

Re: Dashing White Sergeant (was Two Chords)

March 23, 2006, 1:41 a.m. (Message 44852, in reply to message 44847)

Jim Healy wrote:
 "The old timers on this list will be unsurprised at my approximately
 biennial  answer to this question. The DWS always did, and IMO should
always
 still,  start with a four bar intro. That allows plenty of time for the
centre
 person to acknowledge both partners and both lines of three to make  eye
 contact."

Add me to the list favouring the 4 bar intro for DWS. And no better version
exists (in my opinion)
than Ian MacPhail and his band from the tape "Scotland- The Dances and Dance
Bands"
(Tunes are Dashing White Sergeant, Caddam Woods, and Miss Suzanne Barbour)

Jack in Beautiful British Columbia