BIOS Reporter – Volume 12, No.3 – July 1988

Our understanding of organ building and culture in Britain in the nineteenth century still largely rests on a view, cultivated in the early twentieth century, that Willis was the most important pioneer and the true precursor of the style adopted by following generations. This is by no means false, but it is an approach to the history of the Victorian organ that is clouded by later concerns, and it affects our judgement of Willis’s contemporaries to this day…