English Dances & Instruments

SOME ENGLISH DANCES

English Country Dance, Clog Dance (Lancashire/Cheshire, Durham/Northumberland), Step Dance (Norfolk - sometimes with their jig-dolls), Morris Dance (Cotsworld, Molly, Border, N.W. Clog Morris), Bacup Coconut Dancing (Lancashire), Yorkshire Longsword, N.E. Rapper, Maypole Dancing, Helston Furry Dance (Cornwall), Great Wishford Grovely-Day Dance (Wiltshire), Whalton Baal-Fire (Circle) Dancing (Northumberland), Abbots Bromley Horn-Dancing (Staffordshire), ‘Obby ‘Osses (Cornwall and Somerset)

INSTRUMENTS OF (OR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH) ENGLAND

Northumbrian Bagpipes (bellows blown), Leicestershire Bagpipes (mouth blown); English Concertina, Anglo Concertina, Duet Concertina (and important developments to – if not inventions of – other keyboards, such as piano and organ, have also occurred in England); Dital Harp/Harp-Lute, English Cittern; English Flageolet, Penny Whistle, Recorder/English Flute, Pipe and Tabor (old Morris accompaniment), Norfolk jig-dolls, the Stylophone (a recent one), Brass, Bells (to some, England’s national instrument), as well as Spoons. (Footnote: having seen the Chinese and the Greeks, pleasingly, present theirs, I wonder how-many of the above instruments - and dances - will be shown at the London Olympics..?)

English concertina

English flute/tenor recorder