--- Beth wrote: The key to not having the sets re-merge is to make sure that the first set has an odd number of couples in it. --- end of quote --- True, if the dance is a duple minor; I don't think that's the case, though, for triple minor dances: Money Musk, Sackett's Harbor, British Sorrow, Market Lass, Jamie Allen, Careless Sally, Doubtful Shepherd, older versions of Lamplighter's HP, and so on. For duple minor dances, in conditions such as the packed floor at the Dance Flurry, it might be possible with the assistance of a few skilled floor managers to set up long lines, have dancers take hands four, break the sets midway down the hall, and then bring the last couple from the far end of each set in the back of the hall to become last couple in the front set, still maintaining that wide alley between the sets. David Millstone