Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Fiddle Faddle

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FIDDLE FADDLE (S8x32) 3C (4C set) Johnson RSCDS Book 12

1- 8 1s set and cast 1 place, set and 1L casts up 1 place while 1M casts down 1 place
9-16 2M dances diagonal reel of 3 with 1L+3M (passing 1L RSh to start) while 3L dances a reel with 1M+2L (passing 1M RSh to start)
17-24 1s dance RSh reels of 3 on own sides to end facing 1st corners
25-32 1s turn 1st corners RH, partner LH, 2nd corners RH then partner LH and back to place

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


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Fiddle Faddle is a Scottish Country Dance published by Walsh in c. 1735 and interpreted in RSCDS Book 12 in 1938.

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