Oops and oops.

Oops 1: GUEST above was me, having not realised my cookie had gone.

Oops 2: I was thinking that Mary's appeal concerned triple time in general because (apart from 6/8) it's pretty scarce for English dances. Also what someone notates as 3/2 someone else could notate as 3/4 (e.g. I once heard that Alistair Anderson had perceived a resemblance between polskas, which are usually written as 3/4, and some Northumbrian tunes in 3/2).

If we're looking specifically at the 3/2 hornpipes, isn't the problem that the tunes have survived but no-one knows what the steps were?

Richard