BIOS Reporter – Volume 31, No.2 – April 2007

It has been a daunting task to take over the Chairmanship of BIOS from Professor Peter Williams. BIOS is doing so much. The NPOR is a public face which, thanks to Frances Pond, the editors and all the corrections sent in by members, is still improving in accuracy and scope. The Historic Organ Sound Archive (HOSA) project is now complete, with recordings by seven distinguished performers on forty-four different organs in East Anglia, all now available on the Internet for you to listen to. The recording sessions were combined with no less than twenty public events to educate the public in the value and usefulness of historic organs. The event at Thaxted attracted some seventy people, nearly all local residents. Many people, led by José Hopkins, worked hard to ensure the success of this project. Now it is successfully complete, BIOS is looking for ways to replicate the HOSA project in other areas of the country…