BIOS Reporter – Volume 21, No.2 – April 1997

We make no apology for returning to the perennial controversy over the responsibilities of organ design and building. Elsewhere in this Reporter we reprint an article written in 1928 by Aubrey Allen, which coincidentally but providentially illuminates the recent creation of the Institute of British Organbuilding. This new venture recognises that British organ building needs an organisation devoted to the exposition and maintenance of the highest standards in design and construction, allied to a recognition that organ building and. importantly, restoration, are much more serious undertakings today than they have ever been. Vitally, the new Institute is aware that the organ as a musical instrument is worthy of far more serious consideration both from its builders and from those who study and use it…