Dance: J.B. Milne

32-bar Reel
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:
Hugh Foss (1954)
Formations:
Petronella - half (PET;HALF;)
Steps:
Pas-de-Basque
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Published in:
Angus Fitchet Scottish Dance Album [16] *
Scottish Reels are Fun [29]
Collins Pocket Reference [226]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [69]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [72]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [87]
Recommended Music:
J.B. Milne (Angus Fitchet)
Recordings (16): Show tunes
Hielan' Laddie (Jimmy Blair and his Scottish Dance Band), track 6
Industrial Strength (West Telferton Caledonian Dance Band), track 8
Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 2 (Neil Barron and his Scottish Dance Band), track 8 [pace 34.1]  [has sample]
Ghillies on the Golden Gate (Fiddlesticks & Ivory), track 7 [pace 34.6]  [has sample]
Strictly Scottish Volume One (Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band), track 1
Edinburgh Castle Reel, The and other SCD (Bobby Frew Four with Ian Powrie), track 4 [pace 34.1]
Dance with the London Highland Club (Frank Reid and his Band), track 6 [pace 33.8]
Caller Herrin' and seven other SCD/Foss (Peter White and his Scottish Dance Band), track 4  [has sample]
Let's All Go Scottish Country Dancing (McBain's Scottish Country Dance Band), track 8 [pace 33.0]
Scottish Country Dancing (McBain's Scottish Country Dance Band), track 19 [pace 33.0]
Farewell to Paternoster Square (The Craigellachie Band), track 5
Welcome to Tayside (The Maple Leaf Scottish Dance Band), track 1
Live and Well (The Music Makars), track 9 [pace 34.9]
Play Basingstoke Ball (McBain's Scottish Country Dance Band), track 14 [pace 33.0]
Scottish Country Dances Vol 1-2 (The Ian Muir Sound), track 5
Play Basingstoke Ball (McBain's Scottish Country Dance Band), track 15 [pace 33.2]

Crib

1-81M set to and turn 2W RH ; 1W+2M repeat
9-161C set advancing, turn BH ; open out upwards and cast off one (2C up), Petronella Turn to: 1M between 3C and 1W between 2C
17-241C set, turn ¾ RH, set, turn ¾ RH, while 2C+3C pass RH on the sides, set, cross RH, set
25-321C set, pass RH, 1W cast off and 1M cast up to 2pl, while 2C+3C pass RH on the sides, set ; cross RH, in the last two bars all set.
In 17-32, the tradition is to set one bar to the person you just passed, then one bar to the next person to pass. In a variant 1C turns BH in PdB.
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

Additional information

According to Tom Roby, back in the very early days of the Strathspey list: »Supposedly J.B. Milne was the owner of a (chain of?) movie theatre(s). In the last 16 bars the active couple represent the movie itself, while the supporting couples provide the screen.«

Richard Goss corroborates this and adds that J.B. also played the 'cello in a band with Angus Fitchet, the tune composer.

Nobody seems to know what the »J.B.« stands for.

Update: The other day, Jimmy Smith of Dundee wrote in to say »His name was John Bannerman Milne, and the headquarters for his movie 'empire' was Bannerman House in South Tay Street, Dundee.«

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