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  Lee Fuell July 8, 2011, 12:44 p.m. (Message 61068)

  Tandem Reels (was Re: Reels in Bishop of Columbus)

  Re:
  
  -----Original Message-----
  >From: Norma or Mike Briggs <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
  >Sent: Jul 8, 2011 6:25 AM
  >To: "xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx" <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
  >Subject: Re: Reels in Bishop of Columbus
  >
  >Never understood why anyone would call them "tandem" reels.  You
  don't see couples riding tandem bicycles getting off and changing
  seats every time the road curves.  Nor, to change the subject, have I
  ever understood the term "barn-door" turns for the figure in which one
  partner turns another person by right hand and the other partner turns
  another by the left hand.  Barn doors don't and can't revolve 360
  degrees.
  >
  >Mike Briggs
  
  Yep - illogical!  That name assignment happened in 2005 when the RSCDS
  updated the manual.  Having published Pelorus Jack as an RSCDS dance,
  the Society seems to have decided they needed to name what I'd usually
  heard called "double switchback tandem reels" (two wordy) as simply
  "reel of three in tandem."  What I think of as a "tandem reel" is what
  we do in bars 9-16 and 17-24 of Ferla Mor - 1M following 1W throughout
  with no change of lead.  Had the RSCDS published Ferla Mor, I suspect
  we'd have gotten more logical formation names:  "Reel of three in
  tandem" being what we do in Ferla Mor, and "reel of three in tandem
  with change of lead" for Pelorus Jack.
  
  "Shadow reels" is a new term for me; it's certainly not in the RSCDS
  lexicon (but neither are the more commonly used "mirror reels" a.k.a.
  "reflection reels").
  
  Lee
  
  Beavercreek, OH, USA
        

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