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====== Dutch Dollars ======

Note: Music seems to be same as Tythe Pig.{{ ::music:dutch_dollars-dndabl04.mp3.zip |}}\\

From **John Garden**:

Thompson "24 Country Dances for the year 1800", also in Gedge ‘Town and Country Ladies’ own memorandum book or 'Fashionable Companion 1800’.\\
Triple minor proper
<code>
A1    Hey contrary sides
A2    then on your own side
B1    1s Down the middle & up again, finishing either with a cast off 
      (as in Dutch Pins) or by simply move into middle place and not 
      returning to top of set.
B2    Right & left at Top - possibly in regency style with 1W and 2M 
      ‘oval gypsying’ l.sh. just ahead of 1M and 2W ‘oval gypsying’ r.sh.
</code>
      
Gray’s Country Dance Book for the year 1799 offers ‘Dutch Pins’ -  virtually the same dance to a different tune:
<code>
A1 The first Cu. hey contrary sides
A2 Then on the other sides,
B1 Lead down one Cu. up again, and cast off
B2 Right & left at top
</code>   

This dance helps us feel comfortable about assuming the author of the Thompson dance assumed a cast off at the end of the B1 – its from Dutch Pins that this is indeed where and how the 1s progress.

The Regency ‘oval gypsying’ style Right & left which I have suggested in B2, was also suggested by Pat Shaw in his Holland as seen in the English Country Dance 1713-1820, 1960. Nicholas Broadbridge followed Shaw in his Dance and Danceability notes,

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