Batheing Machine (The)

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Theme code Index	3335 6662H
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles and Samuel Thompson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 3
Tune and/or Page number	No. 65
Year of publication/Date of MS	1773
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BATHEING MACHINE. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The melody is unique to Charles and Samuel Thompson's third country dance collection (London, 1773). A bathing machine was a kind of shack on wheels that could be let into the surf at beaches. This would allow preservation of modesty (primarily for women) while wading or swimming in the ocean. Some attribute the invention of the bathing machine to Benjamin Beale, around 1750, at Margate, Kent.

Printed source: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 65.

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