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Lee Fuell

RE: revisiting Dolphin Reels

June 27, 2006, 1:36 p.m. (Message 45670, in reply to message 45668)

Malcolm,

Yes, we have noted that problem with the new manual and discussed it
in a New Manual Discussion Group earlier this year.  Ferla Mor is, I
think, another dance with tandem reels where the leads do not change.
However, I don't think there are any RSCDS-published dances with that
figure.  So now if the Society ever chooses to publish The Dancing
Master or Ferla Mor or any other dance with "tandem reels without lead
changes," they are going to have to come up with some cumbersome name
for the figure.  It is disappointing that the authors of the new
manual did not anticipate this problem and name the "dolphin reels"
something else, like "tandem reels with lead changes."  Any chance of
a page change update to the new manual?  Anyone from RSCDS management
lurking out there and following this?

Lee Fuell
Arlington, VA and Beavercreek, OH, USA