I'm in the middle of re-learning Cammeyer's "A Dancer's Dream" (aka The Dancers Dream, Dancer's Dream, etc,  with or without an apostrophe and/or article) and have come to  a stumbling block. Sheaff's essay on how to play this piece

(http://www.zither-banjo.org/pages/Dancersdream.pdf)

says that the fingering of the sixteenth measure of Part Two  is made clear by the score. The only score I have seen is the same one that is in the library of this website. It's the same as the score to be found on zither-banjo.org and it shows that the fingering of the sixteenth measure is to be extended into the first half of the seventeenth measure. I don't see how I can play the tune if I do that. The seventeenth measure is made up of two identical halves and to play either half seems to require a shift in chord position to lower frets. Am I making a mistake? Or is the mistake one that the printer made?

Normally I use whatever fingering I want to use, but Cammeyer was very particular and the intended effect can usually only be obtained in the way prescribed by him. So I though it was worth an inquiry.

Thank you.

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