On 18 May 2011, at 09:05, Julia Say wrote: > There was also a " lively discussion" with another person at the time > as to whether it was adequate.
I can imagine that it was lively! But as to whether or not any pipe-making book can be adequate, that depends entirely on what one expects. A good book will have enough information to make a decent set of pipes. Making them work is another matter and requires personal explanation and demonstration. What Cox & Bryan provides is a good representation of parts of historical sets by the Reids and Dunn in their 'as found' state after fettling. In fact there isn't a complete Reid set illustrated; the drones and chanter are from different sets. However, there's plenty of good information there to make a very authentic Reid style set, or one resembling Dunn's work representing an earlier stage of NSPS C & B was very much a product of its time being written in a period when technical education was far more widespread. Many boys (not girls, unfortunately) would have had some experience of lathe and metal-work at school. This is no longer the case, and a suitably equipped school workshop would be hard to find, these days. The present consequence of that is that a pipe-making course would now be a difficult thing to establish. Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
