| They have yet to see the Macphail lead the strathspey with his betrothed. |
| Because the strathspey rhythm has four strong beats to the bar, is played quickly, and contains many dot-cut 'snaps,' it is a rhythmically tense idiom. |
| Arms are raised, the cheers are deafening, the pipes turn to a strathspey and a whole section of the crowd launches into a mad jig. |
| When they got back to strathspey House it was obvious that something unpleasant had occurred during their absence. |
| So we can jig and reel, and strathspey, we are capable of pas de pax setting, possettes and allemande, and we even know the names of some of the people that go there. |
| The strathspey is a slow and grandiose modification of the Reel. |
