Dance: The Machine Without Horses

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

Devised by:

Rutherford (1772)

Formations:

Rights and Lefts (R&L)
Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
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:

Pas-de-Basque
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Featured in:

Santa Fe
July 14

Published in:

Book 12 [12] *
Pocket: Books 10,11,12 [36]
Thirty Popular Scottish Country Dances [19]
101 Scottish Country Dances [65]
Scottish Reels are Fun [36]
Collins Pocket Reference [145]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [97]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [93]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [116]

Full description:

http://www.javastandrewsociety.com/Scottish%20Country%20Dances/MachineWithoutHorses.htm

Recommended Music:

The Machine without Horses ((traditional))

Recordings (19): Show tunes

Book 12. (Colin Dewar and his Scottish Dance Band), track 6 [pace 35.5]
Music for Fifteen Dances (Colin Dewar and his Scottish Dance Band), track 9 [pace 35.5]
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 1 (Colin Dewar and his Scottish Dance Band), track 1 [pace 35.5]
Scottish Dance Time Vol 1 (Stan Hamilton and his Flying Scotsmen), track 2 [pace 34.0]  
King of the Melodeon Men (Jimmy Shand and his Band), track 3 [pace 32.3]
Preliminary Test (Muriel A Johnstone), track 6
Step We Gaily (Jimmy Shand and his Band), track 10
On Stage With..., Volume 1 (The Thistle Band), track 2
Saint Andrew's Ball - Volume 2 (Frank Reid), track 9 [pace 33.4]
Music for Collins Pocket Reference. Vol 2 (The Colin Dewar Quartet), track 7 [pace 34.1]
Scottish Dances (The Alastair Downie Band), track 13 [pace 33.5]
More Capital Reels (Auld Reekie), track 4 [pace 32.8]
Cairngorms (Muriel Johnstone & Keith Smith), track 1 [pace 36.9]  
The Reel Party (Neil Barron and his Scottish Dance Band), track 4 [pace 33.8]
I Love Scottish Country Dance Music (Bobby Murray), track 1 [pace 33.9]
Book 12. (Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent), track 12 [pace 35.1]
Jim Cameron's Scottish Dance Band Vol 2 (Jim Cameron's Scottish Dance Band), track 9 [pace 33.0]
Tim Wright and his Scottish Dance Band (Tim Wright and his Scottish Dance Band), track 2 [pace 31.5]
Vintage 78's Vol 2 (Bobby MacLeod and his Band), track 20 [pace 34.2]

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Additional information

The RSCDS Technique Q&A site points out that on bar 24, 2nd couple dance into place at the top the »short« way instead of looping out and turning their back on their partner. It emphasises that this is unlike the vaguely similar movement in Broadford Bay, which is described differently.

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