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Tim Harrison

Re: Help with An' thou wert my only Dear

Oct. 17, 2001, 4:53 p.m. (Message 27916, in reply to message 27915)

Thanks, I might add "Tibbie Fowler..." to next week's class.

I taught "An' thou wert my only Dear" last night. We worked through
the simultaneous turns with little difficulty, thanks to the help I
got on the Strathspey list. The greatest difficulty turned out to be
the transition from the rights and lefts at the end of the dance to
the reel with 1st lady and 2nd couple at the beginning of the next
repetition. For some reason, the new 2nd lady and 2nd man had
difficulty remembering which of them should be involved in the first
reel of the dance. Sometimes both of them would start and other times
neither of them would start. 1st couple seemed to easily remember that
only 1st lady was involved in the first reel.

-- Tim Harrison
-- Austin, Texas