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Issue 3110: New dance for tune

Object
Click Go the Shears, Boys (Tune)
Submitter
Mark Dancer (Aelfric)
Assigned to
Viktor Lehmann
Priority
Normal
Disposition
Fixed
Description

Name: Click Goes the Shears Strathspey 32 x 4 4 couples longwise Progression: 2341 Devised by: Mark Dancer (new person entry required, Location: Brisbane, Qld, Australia) Devised: 2023 Formations: 111 Lead down and up 1 Advance and Retire 227 Rights and Lefts - chain [modified for 4 couples, not 3] 49 Knot 3 couples Steps: Strathspey Travelling Unpublished Recommended Music: Click Goes the Shears, Boys. Note on music: Recording 6380 Glengarry Homestead by Marion Anderson on The Kangaroo Paw works well. Could also use other Australian folk songs such as Botany Bay and The Wild Colonial Boy as the non-name tunes. Crib: 1-8: 1C and 4C lead down and back 9-12: All advance & return 13-16: All advance passing partners right shoulder, pull back right shoulders, and retire to partners side. [1x,2x,3x,4x] 17-24: All dance chain rights & lefts for 4 couples 17-18: Top three on men’s side and bottom three on ladies’ side change places right hands 19-20: Top three on ladies’ side and bottom three on men’ side change places left hands 21-24: Repeat instructions for 17-20. [4, 3, 2, 1] 25-32: 4s, 3s, 2s dance 3 couple knot [2, 3, 4, 1].

Extra info: 1-8: The ringer (couple 1) and the old stager (couple 4) fetch their next sheep from the pen. The old stager being closer to the pen gets the bare bellied ewe. 9-16: The blades of the shears cutting the fleece. 17-24: The fleeces are sorted and graded. 25-32: The bales of fleece are tied ready for shipping.

Previous Actions

  • Date  May 3, 2023, 3:05 p.m.
  • User  Mark Dancer (Aelfric)

New issue submitted

  • Date  May 3, 2023, 4:10 p.m.
  • User  Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)

Assigned changed to “tone2tone” (previously “None”)
Disposition changed to “Fixed” (previously “New”)

Hi Mark, I added you as a person and the dance with the basic information given. The editors are not adding cribs though. You can submit your own crib by getting used to ACD markup language yourself which we recommend you do. It will be featured as “SCDDB contributed content” then.

  • Date  May 3, 2023, 11:24 p.m.
  • User  Mark Dancer (Aelfric)

Hello Viktor, Is there a reference manual or user guide to ACD? My search fu can’t find anything for it. Cheers, Mark

  • Date  May 4, 2023, 12:11 a.m.
  • User  Murrough Landon (murrough)

Mark, I wrote a guide for the old version of ACE (not ACD). Anselm is in the process of moving to a new version of ACE Markdown. I already updated my guide at https://my.strathspey.org/u/murrough/docs/ContributedCribs/ but the new syntax is not yet active. So its best to wait until that happens. Hopefully very soon.

By the way, I noticed an extra info note added to the tune which seems to refer more to a particular dance. I guess it ought to be moved to that dance rather than being linked to the tune?

  • Date  May 4, 2023, 1:02 a.m.
  • User  Mark Dancer (Aelfric)

Hi Murrough,

Yes, that note is meant for the dance, not the tune.

Cheers,
Mark

  • Date  May 7, 2023, 7:56 p.m.
  • User  Murrough Landon (murrough)

I have move the extra info from this tune to the dance Click Goes the Shears.