Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Pet O' The Pipers

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Pet O' The Pipers A forty-eight bar Reel for three couples in a four couple longwise set, devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 3.

1-8 First and second couples dance the Bourrel.
9-10 First couple cross over giving right hand in passing.
11-12 First man and third lady change places with the left hand, second man and first lady do the same.
13-14 Second man and third lady cross over giving right hand in passing.
15-16 First and second men change places with the left hand, first and third ladies do the same.
17-24 First man dances a reel of three with second couple on the ladies' side passing second lady by the right to start; whilst first lady dances a reel of three with third couple on the men's side passing third man by the right to start.
25-26 First couple cross over giving left hand in passing.
27-28 First and second ladies change places giving right hand, first and third men do the same.
29-30 Second lady and third man cross over giving left hand in passing.
31-32 First lady and third man change places giving right hand, whilst first man and second lady do the same.
33-40 First lady dances a reel of three with second and third men on the ladies' side of the set passing second man by the left to commence; whilst first man dances a reel of three with second and third ladies on the men's side passing third lady by the left to commence.
41-44 First couple set and cross over giving right hand in passing. 45-48 Six hands round in a circle to the left half way.

Repeat from second place.

(Dance crib compiled by Alison Mitchell, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, 2020)


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(Dance information by Alison Mitchell, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, 2020)


Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 3, reproduced here under this Creative Commons Attribution - NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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