Thanks - I hadn't heard of Watazumi before, it looks like I need to investigate.

On Alihan Samedov's site he says the book is "forthcoming" - there are some photos of page layouts which make it look like a slick piece of state-of-the-art bookmaking. It'll be in Turkish, Russian and English. There is also some parallel production in Azeri which he has less to say about. (I'd settle for a spirit-duplicated stapled job on newsprint in any language if it was only available).

I have Temel Hakki Karahasan's method for the mey, which isn't that good (just a fingering chart and a few songs to play on it). From what I read on the web (again I haven't seen it), Songul Karahasanoglu Ata's "Mey ve Metodu" is much more promising. Karahasan suggests open fingering, but if you look at players on YouTube, what they're doing isn't all that different from Highland pipe chanter fingering - the lower hand is closed when the upper hand has open holes. Fingering is with the middle joints of the fingers rather than the tips, again like the Highland pipes.

Samedov is given to rather overpowering backings, which aren't my thing but IB may go for it.