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Dance Tucked into Edinburgh's Canongate 8218

Reel · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4   (Progression: 213) · Usual number of repetitions: 8

Devised by
Marie Boehmer
Formations
  • Rights and Lefts (R&L)
  • Reel of three - on side (REEL;R3;SIDES;)
  • Note: Due to limitations in the underlying data, the relative order of formations in this list may be different from the order of formations in the actual dance.
Steps
  • Skip-Change
Published in
Recommended Music
Extra Info
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A few steps away from Holyrood Palace and well within frowning distance of John …

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A few steps away from Holyrood Palace and well within frowning distance of John Knox's house, is a unique shop. Tucked into Edinburgh's Canongate, it is the only one in Britain to specialize in selling playing cards. I wondered that the shop would be so close to John Knox's house. Wouldn't he have disapproved? At his time the Kirk had banned playing cards as an invention of the devil. I wonder what John Knox would have said on learning he was depicted as the Joker in one pack! The earliest record of playing cards was aroWld 1370, although it is thought the Chinese played cards in the 10th century. I wondered why hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs were the symbols on cards. I learned that these were generally believed to have come from the French - hearts for the church and scholarships, diamonds for merchants, spades for the military and clubs for the peasants.

Table rows with a green background denote recordings starting with one of the recommended tunes and the usual number of repetitions for the dance (8). A yellow background means a recording with one of the recommended tunes but a non-standard number of repetitions. Recordings with a red background use a different tune and possibly a non-standard number of repetitions.

Recordings whose titles are in italics are not explicitly linked to this dance but have been identified by the database based on the type, bar count, and recommended tune(s) of the dance.

NameArtistAlbumMediaTrkTypeTimePaceClip
Mrs Stewart of Fasnacloich Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band Tweedside CD 7 R32 84:42 35.2
Mrs Stewart of Fasnacloich Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band Music for Eight Scottish Country Dances 1987 LP+ 5 R32 84:42 35.2
Mrs Stewart of Fasnacloich Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band A Fife Fairing CD 10 R32 84:42 35.2
Lady Harriet Hope's Reel Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band Book 16. Music for Twelve Scottish Country Dances CD+ 4 R32 84:44 35.5

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