Re: [Callers] Handheld mic advice

[Don Veino via Callers]

They may have been putting you off due to the FCC frequency reassignment
for wireless systems? If you're sure it's the switch and are interested in
getting it fixed I'd recommend trying a handy/capable friend or a local
electronics repair shop instead. You may end up with antenna-toting folks
at your door someday, however...

I've been very happy with my PGX-D setup for a couple of years now (PGX-D2
handheld with Beta 58A capsule and a PGX-D4 base station). I use
rechargeable low self-drain NiMH AA cells (I find the IKEA LADDA 2450 to be
great at the price) and they last well.

-Don

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Delia Clark via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I need some advice. My wireless mic (Shure PGx2) has finally died - a
> problem with the on/off switch. I sent it to Shure but they said it was was
> too old to repair. Rather than buying through a cheap online site like I
> did last time, which might be why it seems to have broken and gone out of
> date so quickly, I went to the Shure website to look at new ones. Two that
> seem to look a lot like my old one are below. Can anyone recommend which
> might be better for calling, or another handheld wireless mic that you’d
> recommend more?
>
> BLX The ideal entry-level wireless microphone system for small venues, BLX
> offers professional quality sound with simple setup and an intuitive
> interface. $299
> - Transmitter form factors include handheld (customizable at
> designstudio.shure.com), bodypack, headworn, lavalier, instrument
> clip-on, and combo
> - Single-channel, dual-channel, and rack mount receiver options available
> - Powered with AA batteries
> - Offers a 24 MHz tuning bandwidth and up to 12 compatible systems per
> frequency band (region dependent)
>
>
>
> PGX-D Digital offers wireless audio that sounds like wired, rock-solid RF
> performance, and simple setup and operation for small clubs and venues.
>  $349
> Transmitter form factors include handheld, lavalier, headworn, bodypack,
> and instrument clip-on
> Powered with AA batteries
> Operates in the 900 MHz frequency band
> Up to 5 systems can be used simultaneously
>
> Thanks for any advice you have!
> Delia
>
>
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[Callers] Handheld mic advice

[Delia Clark via Callers]

Hi,
I need some advice. My wireless mic (Shure PGx2) has finally died - a problem 
with the on/off switch. I sent it to Shure but they said it was was too old to 
repair. Rather than buying through a cheap online site like I did last time, 
which might be why it seems to have broken and gone out of date so quickly, I 
went to the Shure website to look at new ones. Two that seem to look a lot like 
my old one are below. Can anyone recommend which might be better for calling, 
or another handheld wireless mic that you’d recommend more?

BLX The ideal entry-level wireless microphone system for small venues, BLX 
offers professional quality sound with simple setup and an intuitive interface. 
$299
- Transmitter form factors include handheld (customizable at 
designstudio.shure.com), bodypack, headworn, lavalier, instrument clip-on, and 
combo
- Single-channel, dual-channel, and rack mount receiver options available
- Powered with AA batteries
- Offers a 24 MHz tuning bandwidth and up to 12 compatible systems per 
frequency band (region dependent)



PGX-D Digital offers wireless audio that sounds like wired, rock-solid RF 
performance, and simple setup and operation for small clubs and venues.  $349
Transmitter form factors include handheld, lavalier, headworn, bodypack, and 
instrument clip-on
Powered with AA batteries
Operates in the 900 MHz frequency band
Up to 5 systems can be used simultaneously

Thanks for any advice you have!
Delia


<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>

Delia Clark
PO Box 45
Taftsville, VT 05073
Office/mobile: +1-802-457-2075
deliacla...@gmail.com
www.deliaclarkconfluence.com



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Re: [Callers] Unknown Dance,

[Michael Dyck via Callers]

On 2018-04-11 03:14 PM, Laur via Callers wrote:

I believe this is Will’s dance “turnstiles”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXO3VOXu78


Yup, that's the one.
But he's now renamed it as "Crossing the Kelvin".

(There are already dances named:
 - "Turnstyles" (by Chris Page),
 - "Turnstyle"  (by Hilary Herbert), and
 - "Turnstile"  (by Erik Hoffman)
Plus "Kaiser's Turnstyle" by Sarah Kaiser.)

-Michael

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Re: [Callers] easy dance to Wizard's walk ?

[Mary Collins via Callers]

Swim at Round Pond - Stephanie Marie dup imp (2016?)

A1- ones gypsy & swing
A2- circle left 1x, N swing (end facing down ones on outside)
B1- Down the hall, turn alone, return,
B2- balance to N who gates ones around to new neighbor for mirror do-si-do

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 7:28 AM Mary Collins  wrote:

> Claire (sorry for prev. misspell),
>
> Surprise...my notes say good old Broken Sixpence by Don Armstrong worked
> well.
>
> Both have a DTH in the B1 and just fit so fluidly. Makes me smile
> everytime.
>
> If you need calls for "Swim" let me know.
>
> Mary
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 7:08 AM Mary Collins  wrote:
>
>> Clare,
>>
>> Stephanie Marie wrote a dance Swim at Round Pond that I called and the
>> band had Wizzard's Walk in their set. It fit so beautifully, the dancers
>> beamed as did I. There is another too, done to it, I'll check my notes and
>> get back to you. Both have DTH moves.
>> Mary
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 4:36 AM Claire Takemori via Callers <
>> callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Does someone have dance choreography for an easy contra that goes well
>>> with Wizard’s walk tune?
>>>
>>> I know there was a “Grumpy” longways family dance written to go with it.
>>>
>>> Thanks !
>>>
>>> Claire Takemori
>>> SF Bay Area
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Re: [Callers] Callers Digest, Vol 48, Issue 9

[Dugan Murphy via Callers]

Hi, Claire,

My favorite dance to pair with the tune "Wizard's Walk" is "Bev's Becket"
by Cary Ravitz: http://www.dance.ravitz.us/#bb.  I find that the hey in A2
pairs well with the musical buildup in that phrase and that the balance at
the top of B1 pairs well with the musical explosion at the top of that
phrase.

Dugan Murphy
Portland, Maine
dugan at duganmurphy.com
www.DuganMurphy.com
www.PortlandIntownContraDance.com

>
> From: Claire Takemori 
> Subject: [Callers] easy dance to Wizard's walk ?
>
> Does someone have dance choreography for an easy contra that goes well
> with Wizard?s walk tune?
>
> I know there was a ?Grumpy? longways family dance written to go with it.
>
> Thanks !
>
> Claire Takemori
> SF Bay Area
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Re: [Callers] Unknown Dance,

[Laur via Callers]

I believe this is Will’s dance “turnstiles”
Laurie Pietravalle 


Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone


On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 7:08 AM, Liam Binley via Callers 
 wrote:

Hi,I don’t know if anyone can help me, but this is worth a shot. I recently 
viewed a video of a dance on youtube called by Will Mentor, at the Atlanta 
dance weekend,  but I cannot find a name for it, and am struggling to get the 
full notation for it. I have attached the link for the dance below and any help 
 would be appreciated! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXO3VOXu78=18=PL_1-nPBZes8RfQKhviZzr4fcq1AiQ8l9o=63s
Many Thanks,
Liam Binley.

liam.bin...@me.com
P.S. I’m a 22 year old caller from the uk, not sure if I’ve done this right!
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Re: [Callers] Great dances for learning how to dance with ghosts?

[jim saxe via Callers]

On Apr 11, 2018, at 5:18 AM, Tom Hinds  wrote:

> Jim, maybe the meager response was because you didn't give an example.  And 
> what does "the DL;TR crowd" mean?


I didn't give an explicit example in my 2014 message

https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/msg07945.html

but I did go into more detail about the general pattern than in my
recent posting.  And I fear that as a result some people glanced
at my message, decided it was too long, and didn't read it.
(TL;DR = "too long; didn't read".)  In our current thread, Yoyo
pointed out that "The Hobbit" is an example, and he identified
the three different points where neutral dancers reenter the set.

A simpler example is "Lisa's Contra", mentioned earlier in this
thread by Mark Hillegonds.  Here, with a little reformatting, is
how Mark notated it:

 Lisa’s Contra
 by Tom Hinds
 Contra/Improper/Int

 A1 ---
 (16)  Neighbor B & S
 A2 ---
 (4,4)  Pass thru to a wave, Wave balance
 (2,4,2)  Walk forward to person in next wave
 (don't take hands),  Gypsy R 1/2,  Walk back
 to re-form original wave, but facing opposite
 direction (N in RH, Gents LH)
 B1 ---
 (4,4)  Wave balance, Gents alle L 1/2
 (8)  Partner swing
 B2 ---
 (6,2)  Circle L 3/4, Pass thru up and down
 (8)  Next Neighbor do si do

[For Tom's original notation and notes, see page 15 of his book
_Bad Hair Decade_.]

This dance includes just one out-of-minor-set action:  In the
A2 part, you briefly leave your current neighbors to gypsy (or
"walk around" or whatever you want to call it) with your previous
neighbor.  The result is that when you get to the top or bottom
of the line, you experience THREE pairs of transitions out and
back in, as follows:

 * In B2 of some round of the dance, you pass through up or
   down and the here's no new neighbor to dance with.
   [So this is the first time you go out.]

 * In A2 of the next round, you briefly come back in [for
   the first time] to g your previous neighbor.


 * Then you immediately go back out [for the second time].

 * In B2, a new neighbor approaches and you come in [2nd
   time] starting with the do-si-do.


 * In A2 of the next round, you step forward from your
   wave and there's no old neighbor coming toward you
   along the line.  [You've just gone out for the third
   time.]  You could dance around a "ghost" or you could
   treat your partner (across the set) as a neighbor.

 * Then you return to a new wave with the neighbors you
   just briefly left.  [That's the third time you come
   back in.  You now remain in until you get to the
   other end of the set or the music stops.]

I could give other examples, but really all you need to do is
pick almost any dance where you go out of your minor set (to
dance with a previous neighbor, future neighbor, or shadow)
and then return.  If you analyze the end effects carefully,
you'll usually find that dancers go out (become neutral) and 
come back in at least three times.  It's actually harder to
find examples where they go out and come back in exactly
twice.

Often, the thing to do in order to come back in in the right
position is so obvious to experienced contra dancers that
we hardly notice there's a decision to be made.  We just do
the obvious/habitual thing and it turns out to be right.  I
think that's part of the reason that the commonness of the
(out-in)x3 pattern could go unnoticed for so long by so many
people.  I don't know of anyone who wrote about it before I
noticed it in 2013 (if anyone does, please tell me).  And by
then I must have experienced it myself hundreds of times, if
not a thousand or more in 30+ years of dancing, without
really noticing.

--Jim

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Re: [Callers] Unknown Dance,

[Michael Dyck via Callers]

On 2018-04-11 07:08 AM, Liam Binley via Callers wrote:

Hi,
I don’t know if anyone can help me, but this is worth a shot. I recently 
viewed a video of a dance on youtube called by Will Mentor, at the Atlanta 
dance weekend,  but I cannot find a name for it, and am struggling to get 
the full notation for it. I have attached the link for the dance below and 
any help  would be appreciated!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXO3VOXu78=18=PL_1-nPBZes8RfQKhviZzr4fcq1AiQ8l9o=63s


It looks like the sequence is:

  duple minor, 1s improper
  A1  N allemande R
  hey 1/2 (W pass L to start)
  N allemande R
  A2  hey 1/2 (M pass L to start)
  N swing
  B1  circle L 3/4
  P swing
  B2  W chain
  L-hand star

but I don't know the title+author.

Presumably Will would know, but he hasn't appeared here recently.
I've sent him an email.

-Michael

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Re: [Callers] Great dances for learning how to dance with ghosts?

[Tom Hinds via Callers]

Jim, maybe the meager response was because you didn't give an example.  And 
what does "the DL;TR crowd" mean?

Tom

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> On Apr 10, 2018, at 9:45 PM, jim saxe via Callers 
>  wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 3:49 PM, Yoyo Zhou via Callers 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> I recall reading something, possibly from Jim Saxe on this list (and maybe 
>> from Larry Jennings?), about how in most dances without out-of-minor-set 
>> interactions, you come back into the set ... once - after progressing to the 
>> end. But in dances like The Hobbit, where you leave the minor set once, you 
>> actually come back in to the set 3 times. ...
> 
> That would have been from me in a message to this list on July 9,
> 2014 with the subject "An observation about end effects -- becoming
> neutral three times at each end".
> 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/msg07945.html
> 
> Based on the meager response at the time, I fear that few readers
> got my point (though it looks like Yoyo was one who did).  For the
> TL;DR crowd, here's the short version:
> 
> In almost every contra with even a simple out-of-minor-set
> action, dancers who reach the top or bottom will become
> neutral and return to the body of the set not twice but at
> least *THREE* different times.
> 
> I'm not going to give an example.  I think that anyone who picks
> a few examples of dances with out-of-minor-set action and actually
> takes the trouble to trace the end effects carefully will see, now
> that I've pointed it out, that what I've said is true.  And anyone
> who won't take that trouble to do that probably also wouldn't take
> the trouble to study my analysis of an example if I gave one.
> 
> In case anyone's wondering about my terminology, I won't try to
> give definitions of "out-of-minor-set action" and "neutral" that
> cover every unusual situation, but here are some remarks about
> common situations that should make my meaning clear:
> 
>If you leave your partner to dance with a shadow and then
>return to your partner, or if you leave a neighbor to dance
>with a future neighbor or a previous neighbor and then return
>to the first neighbor, I count that as an out-of-minor-set
>action.  If a dance merely has you and your partner progress
>to new neighbors in the middle of the tune (instead of at the
>transition from B2 to A1), and you stay in that new foursome
>until the same point in the next round of the dance, then I
>don't count it as out-of-minor-set action.  I also don't count
>merely taking hands in long lines with a shadow or a past or
>future neighbor while you still have your partner or your
>current neighbor in the other hand.
> 
>If dancers are doing something in groups of four, I count any
>dancers near the top or bottom to the set who aren't part of
>a complete foursome as neutral.  This includes the case where
>a pair dancers stand still during a diagonal ladies' chain
>or a diagonal right and left through because there's nobody
>to do it with.
> 
>If most of the dancers are doing a two-person figure with
>partners, neighbors, or shadows on the sides of the set,
>then I count as neutral any dancers at the top or bottom
>who are (1) standing still, (2) "dancing with ghosts", or
>(3) dancing the figure with someone *across* the set
>(possibly a partner or shadow acting as a neighbor).
> 
> --Jim
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Re: [Callers] easy dance to Wizard's walk ?

[Mary Collins via Callers]

Claire (sorry for prev. misspell),

Surprise...my notes say good old Broken Sixpence by Don Armstrong worked
well.

Both have a DTH in the B1 and just fit so fluidly. Makes me smile everytime.

If you need calls for "Swim" let me know.

Mary

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 7:08 AM Mary Collins  wrote:

> Clare,
>
> Stephanie Marie wrote a dance Swim at Round Pond that I called and the
> band had Wizzard's Walk in their set. It fit so beautifully, the dancers
> beamed as did I. There is another too, done to it, I'll check my notes and
> get back to you. Both have DTH moves.
> Mary
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 4:36 AM Claire Takemori via Callers <
> callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> Does someone have dance choreography for an easy contra that goes well
>> with Wizard’s walk tune?
>>
>> I know there was a “Grumpy” longways family dance written to go with it.
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
>> Claire Takemori
>> SF Bay Area
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[Callers] Unknown Dance,

[Liam Binley via Callers]

Hi,
I don’t know if anyone can help me, but this is worth a shot. I recently viewed 
a video of a dance on youtube called by Will Mentor, at the Atlanta dance 
weekend,  but I cannot find a name for it, and am struggling to get the full 
notation for it. I have attached the link for the dance below and any help  
would be appreciated! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXO3VOXu78=18=PL_1-nPBZes8RfQKhviZzr4fcq1AiQ8l9o=63s
 


Many Thanks,
Liam Binley.

liam.bin...@me.com

P.S. I’m a 22 year old caller from the uk, not sure if I’ve done this right!

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Re: [Callers] easy dance to Wizard's walk ?

[Mary Collins via Callers]

Clare,

Stephanie Marie wrote a dance Swim at Round Pond that I called and the band
had Wizzard's Walk in their set. It fit so beautifully, the dancers beamed
as did I. There is another too, done to it, I'll check my notes and get
back to you. Both have DTH moves.
Mary

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 4:36 AM Claire Takemori via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Does someone have dance choreography for an easy contra that goes well
> with Wizard’s walk tune?
>
> I know there was a “Grumpy” longways family dance written to go with it.
>
> Thanks !
>
> Claire Takemori
> SF Bay Area
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[Callers] easy dance to Wizard's walk ?

[Claire Takemori via Callers]

Does someone have dance choreography for an easy contra that goes well with 
Wizard’s walk tune? 

I know there was a “Grumpy” longways family dance written to go with it.  

Thanks !

Claire Takemori 
SF Bay Area 
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