“One charm of the book is its lively humor and the chatty style as if Scoville were standing at your elbow talking you through the whole process. Scoville recommends his book not only to ‘parents, teachers, woodworkers, musicians, craftspeople, and modern dancers’, but to ‘people who hate music but love to build things, theaters in need of sound effects, feminists, masculinists, Buddhists or Presbyterians, oil executives with empty 55 gallon drums, common folk tired of petroleum politics,’ in short to the whole human race.”