BIOS Reporter – Volume 7, No.2 – April 1983

We recently received a letter from an organ builder, who, for reasons which will be apparent, had best remain anonymous. The salient paragraph of the letter went as follows:

It is with some sadness that I note the mention in this month’s Reporter of the Hill organ from Leith. We have today received an invitation from the Department of the Environment to tender for the rebuilding of the Leith organ with electric action and tonal modifications, in Aldershot. We have declined and returned the papers, explaining politely but firmly that after all the effort that was made to save this organ, we feel this course of action is quite wrong…