M.Ted - part of the reason I asked about this. As I said - it's something I'm going to continue doing for myself anyway. I'm about an eighth of the way through the condensed version. But based on Bronson's numbering there are somewhere around 44 more tunes for Child's #2 alone. (god knows how many more - but face it - five volumes plus addenda were condensed down to one.)

Matt - I'm trying to figger it out. But we want minimum therbligs as well as minimized duplication of effort, right? and maximized participation would probably be nice. which means a niice calm public discussion is good.

Clarification - when I saw just the basic tune and one verse of lyrics. Notation is included (in some examples) for verse to verse variation in the melody. In the condensed version (I don't know about the full version) most of these have no notation with them to indicate WHICH verses they occur in - though at least one I've encountered so far very nicely marks each variation with WHICH verse it is for. That is the "variations" I said I wasn't going to include. But (for example) for Child #2 Bronson includes Nine variants in the condensed version - I've transcribed all nine.