BIOS Reporter – Volume 24, No.2 – April 2000

Elsewhere in this issue we report on the conference recently held at Reading and which gave pride of place to the recently restored Town Hall organ. The restoration is a milestone in that, apparently unfettered by financial considerations, a serious attempt has been made to evaluate the significance of this instrument and to do justice to the findings. The result reflects great credit on the town authorities at Reading, the Berkshire Organists’ Association and the restorers, Messrs Harrison & Harrison, led by Mark Venning who was responsible for many of the detailed decisions on how the work should be tackled. What we now have is a Victorian concert organ functioning as such…