BIOS Reporter – Volume 32, No.1 – January 2008

If anything was clear at the recent BIOS Day Conference at St Botolph without Aldgate it was the distinctive voice of the organ. This is not the place to employ vague adjectives to describe the sound, but rather to consider its place in the wider context of the organ. What is the purpose of the conservation and restoration so ably carried at St Botolph without Aldgate? The obvious answer is that it gives valuable insights into the characteristics of a 1704 organ by Renatus Harris, and, by extension. into the music written and performed at the time. This is entirely laudable.
but if it goes no further then it is a sterile exercise, merely ‘the moving of bones from one cemetery to another’…