--- On Tue, 17/5/11, Vernon Levy <[email protected]> wrote: I also have the Cock and Bryan book and the unrealised ambition to make a set of my own. Hello Vernon If we stick with Barry's fruit analogy idea, Richard Suttleworth was comparing apples past their sell-by date with fresh ones. The Cox & Bryan book is lovely to look at and an important historical document but if you actually want to make a set then follow Richard's advice. I inwardly chuckle at the revealing secrets idea. From my own experience and reading about the attempts of the Dukes of Northumberland to promote a flourishing piping tradition from th 19th century onward, I wonder just who these detractors were, and which secrets were revealed? The motives are fascinating too - it wasn't as if pipemaking at that time was a high power Formula 1 type endeavour but it clearly needed that book. As for the other point, I would love to think that piping could ever reach the wide appeal of leek growing and benefit from a similar financial input. Having been on the receiving end of a few last prizes myself I can vouch that the total prize value for even a small club such as Ellingham was in the thousands and lots of people were/are fanatical! Anthony
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