Clink The Glass

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1-4 All 3 men advance, clink, and retire.
5-8 All 3 ladies repeat bars 1-4.
9-10 1st and 2nd couples set advancing,
11-12 1st and 2nd couples clink, set while changing hands and clink again,
13-14 1st and 2nd couples set facing each other up and down while changing hands again,
15-16 1st couple dance down the outside to 2nd place while 2nd couple dance up the middle to 1st place.
17-20 All 3 couples set and link (without giving hands).
21-24 All 3 couples advance, clink, and retire.
25-28 All 3 couples set and link (without giving hands).
29-32 All 3 couples half turn passing right shoulder to face each other, clink, and pull back by the right to dance out to place. Finish in order 3,1,2.

Repeat from new positions.

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Zsolt Molnar, 2016)

Dance Notes

Crib Diagram

Clink The Glass - From A Reel Goulash 2

Dance Information

(Dance information from A Reel Goulash 2, Budapest Book of Scottish Country Dances, reproduced here with kind permission)

Clink The Glass, 1937

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