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ID:2553
Title:The Night Piece
The Shaking of Sheets
Formation: 3C LW
Summary:Up a double and back
Cross over
Fall back
Gates up
C# siding
Cross and cast twice
Arm R & L
Corners cross
Set and turn single
CDs:The English Dancing Master by Orange and Blue, The Ranchers
ECD from Playford by Broadside Band
Author:
Sources:Dancing Master 1st Ed. 1651, The
Country Dance Book, The
Thompson 1754
English Dancing Master
Elizabethan Country Dances
Barnes Book of ECD Tunes (Vol. 1)
Website: http://round.soc.srcf.net/d...

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