BIOS Reporter – Volume 37, No.3 – July 2013

You will have already noticed that this issue of “The Reporter” is larger than usual. Unfortunately this is not as a result of a vast number of printed articles, rather that there is a large amount of material printed from the AGM, together with other regular reports. I apologise to those members who have submitted articles that have not been included in this issue; I convey my thanks to you and assure you that I will be including them in a future edition.

Last week I played a Rushworth & Dreaper organ from the mid 1930s, which I always find a joy to play, and brought to mind the fabulous, enormous 4 manual R&D organ in Stirling of 1939 that must be R&D’s “opus maximus”. After WW2 many firms like R&D could not recover to their former glory and most provincial towns like Glasgow, Liverpool, Hull and Great Yarmouth have all lost fabulous instruments. War has unintended casualties, including our heritage; however peacetime also has unintended casualties, including our heritage…