strathspey@strathspey.org:44928

simon scott

RE: Angus Macleod- to promenade or not to promenade????????

March 30, 2006, 9:21 p.m. (Message 44928, in reply to message 44926)

Out of interest, I note that in the diagrams with the instructions
printed by Dumfries and Galloway News, Castle-Douglas in 1969, the two
couples are show with a straight line directly connecting the man and
woman.  This would indicate "nearer hands joined".  

However in the hard cover book "The Dances of an Island Clan" published
in memory of Andrew Rankin, who composed the music, when he died in
1985, the man and woman are shown with an angled connecting line, which
could very well be seen to indicate promenade.

I'm sure "nearer hands" is correct and original.

Simon
Vancouver