G'day M.Ted,

An Irish 'Polka' is also 2/4 ... but has has less of the built-in 'skip' (roughly what pulka [er.. maybe pûlka ...] means in the Czech language of the Bohemian area of its origin - so it's more like a march 'with a bit of a skip'.

In my earlier post I said I played the named tune at roughly 60 bars / minute. This is, of course, the same as [roughly] 120 beats / minute ... but the final decider is how fast the dancers - or the caller - wants the tune.

Reagrds,

Bob