It is a solid introduction to making of woodwinds using rather primitive methods that are available and suitable to hobbyists/amateur instrument makers. The book offers enough instruction to be successful at building such instruments even though the information is a bit dated. I wish there was a bigger section dedicated to tuning.One negative and a quite disappointing item to mention is that there are few mistakes in the drawings where the numbers simply do not add up or dimensions are missing and one must use approximate (but not accurate) values to finish the work. Still the book deserves 5*