The chain progression in this dance is for 3 couples.

Iain Boyd has not yet published this dance but has provided the following information about the Three-Couple Chain Progression:

> The ‘three-couple chain progression’ occurred to me after dancing the ‘three-couple birl (bourrel)’ in Sue McKinnell’s dance “Barbara’s Strathspey” (“RSCDS Book 46”).
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> I first used the formation in what is now known as “The Copper Beech” which was devised on Wednesday 23rd August 2017 and subsequently given to Helen and Malcolm Brown on Friday 18th November 2022.
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> I always refer to the progression as a ‘three-couple chain progression’ because it is similar in structure to the ‘three-couple birl (bourrel)’.
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> The formation the Society refers to as a ‘three-couple chain progression’ is a quite different formation and should be renamed as a ‘promenade chain progression’ (or something similar)!
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> The progression may start and finish in various positions as is the case with dances which include the ‘three-couple birl (bourrel)’.
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> In “The Copper Beech” dancers finish the previous figure in the following order from the top - first man, third man and second man (on the men’s side) and third woman, second woman and first woman (on the women’s side).
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>   1-8	First, second and third couples dance a three-couple chain progression:
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>   - 1-2	First man and third woman, third man and second woman and second man and first woman turn with right hands three-quarters round.  
               Dancers finish in a line of six up and down the middle with first and third men facing down and second and first women facing up and third woman and second man (at the ends of the line) facing clockwise.
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>  - 3-6	First man and second woman and third man and first woman turn with left hands one and a half times round  
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                third woman and second man dance clockwise halfway round the outside.  
                Dancers finish facing partner in a line of six up and down the middle in the order second man, second woman, first man, first woman, third man and third woman.
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>  - 7-8	Second, first and third couples turn partner with right hands three-quarters round to finish on own sides.