strathspey@strathspey.org:47393

Sophie Rickebusch

Re: Pilling diagrams

Dec. 7, 2006, 9:45 a.m. (Message 47393, in reply to message 47388)

Yes, that seems to be what most people instinctively do. It would be interesting
to give a class of relative newcomers pencils and paper and ask them to draw a
set as if they were explaining the arrangement to someone who'd never done SCD,
see which way up they come out. My bet is there'd be a majority of "top of the
set at the top of the page".

Sophe

Selon Susan McKinnell <xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx>:

> I love hearing all the various ways people work out dances.  I'm afraid
> I am not so sophisticated: I just write out 1M, 1W, etc. on a piece of
> paper and work out where they end up after a figure, write out that
> formation, etc. until I've worked through the entire dance.  And I find
> I write out dances "from the foot," i.e. my starting arrangement is:
> 1M   1W
> 2M   2W
> 3M   3W
> 4M   4W
> or however many couples or people I need.
> Sue
> Chicago (USA) Branch
>
> Iain Boyd wrote:
>
> >Greetings All,
> >
> >  I have always used squares and circles drawn on paper and, since Bob
> Campbell introduced the concept, I draw the squares and circles with a bar
> across one 'side' to represent the direction each 'dancer' faces. In fact, I
> usually work out a dance in my mind using moving squares and circles.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >
> >  Iain Boyd
> >  Wellington
> >  New Zealand
> >
> >
> >Gary Knox <xxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> >  I use dice to work through dances. One color for the ladies and another
> for
> >the gentlemen, the number on the top side represents the couple number.
> >
> >______________________
> >Gary Knox
> >San Francisco Branch
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >  Wellington
> >  New Zealand
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>
> --
> Susan McKinnell        xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx         http://suedan.com
>
> "A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly
> revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove
> its title?"
> - Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Sophie Rickebusch
FR - St Martin d'Heres