Most traditional wooden organ pipes are constructed using a foot block
which creates the airway.  It seems reasonable to call these "block-
footed" pipes when describing the method of building them.

The pipes shown in the John Smith Busker and Senior 20 plans, and in
some other amateur organ building information, use a box to create the
foot.  It seems reasonable to describe these as "box-footed" pipes.

Does anyone know the history of the box-footed pipe?  Does anyone claim
to have invented it?

Wallace Venable