BIOS Reporter – Volume 23, No.2 – April 1999

The recent BIOS – IBO joint conference at the British Organ Archive presented an important opportunity to state the need for adequate documentation of instruments prior to any reconstruction or restoration.

Present opinion is well informed of the necessity for recording an object’s history; witness the work being carried out by NADFAS (National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies) in church recording. To date, some 800 churches have had their contents minutely catalogued and inventories prepared for posterity – the process continues. Assimilation of information is much easier than it used to be and need not involve lengthy written descriptions when a photograph can do half the job…