Tune Up Your Fiddles
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Tune Up Your Fiddles A thirty-two bar Strathspey for four couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 13.1- 2 First and third couples cross giving right hands.
3- 8 All four couples join hands on the side and set, cross giving right hands and set.
9-16 First and second couples dance a ladies' chain, third and fourth couples do the same to finish all facing up or down on the side lines.
17-24 Reels of four on the sides, first and seconds pass left shoulder to start as do third and fourths.
25-28 First couple, followed by second couple lead down to fourth place; second couple dance up the sides to start. Meanwhile fourth couple followed by third couple, who dance down to follow, cast up to the top.
29-32 First and third couples make arches: second couple dance down under arch made by first couple, cross to own side and cast up to first place. Meanwhile fourth couple lead down under the arch made by third couple and turn one and a half times to own side with the right hand.
Repeat with new top couple. Recommended tune: Tune your Fiddles
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 13, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell. Instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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