In the end if people are playing together for dancing they have to do just that listen to each other and play the notes at the same time. Most dances rise to the music and have been doing so for hundreds of years. Few people if any complain and bands - except of they are too loud. Social dance is what it says - Social.

I could go to a wider point about people wanting to keep hold of folk music in a semi-secret place making it more difficult for most of us to learn and play tunes. The exact opposite of TuneWorks.

I have stood for far too long on the edge of quick tunes sessions where people play so quick it's hard to tell what the tunes are and they rarely name them anyway.

TW opened up the world of tune playing for thousands of us. I felt PW had closed it down again