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  Alan Harrison July 8, 2011, 1:22 p.m. (Message 61070)

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

  Hi Lee and All,
  
  Yes me again.  Sounds like these derive from what would have at one
  time been considered "bad" dancing.  I can just see Miss Milligan's
  face if she had seen it from the stage at the Younger Hall!
  
  I guess they can be fun if done well but many new dances seem to be
  devised around a particular figure of this ilk.
  
  Best regards,
  Alan Harrison.
  RSCDS Leeds
  
   www.piper-alan.co.uk   
  
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Lee Fuell [mailto:xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx] 
  Sent: 08 July 2011 11:44
  To: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
  Subject: 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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