BIOS Reporter – Volume 25, No.3 – July 2001

BIOS members have laboured for twenty-five years to improve the status and lot of British organs; all too often their efforts have been rewarded by official indifference, ignorance and even hostility, with the demolition men hovering like vultures over valuable instruments. There has been some progress, the occasional organ case being listed for its artistic or historic value as a piece of furniture though remaining divorced from the contents of the organ. Some notable instruments have been rescued and restored, although some fine cases have been emptied of their valuable contents…