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Alex Jappy's Pleasure

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ALEX JAPPY'S PLEASURE (S3x32) 3C set W Ernst Eder Martello Tower Book 5

1- 8 1s+2s set, turn partner 2H and circle 4H round to left
9-16 1s+2s+3s RSh reels of 3 on sides
17-24 1L followed by partner cast 1 place, cross down between 3s, cast up to 2nd place on Men's side and 1L crosses over to own side
25-32 2s+1s+3s dance the Knot to end 312

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


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Alex Jappy is an accordionist who has provided very many happy hours of music for Scottish country dancers.

Alex learned to play the organ at a very early age and then learned the accordion as a teenager in Aberdeen.

Alex has played in Canada, the US, Australia and latterly in classes taught by his wife Ruth at The Delta Borderers Scottish Country Dance Club in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada.

Alex Jappy, accordionist
Alex Jappy c. 2007


Image copyright Alex Jappy, Rob Lockhart, all rights reserved, reproduced here with kind permission, 2018.

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