BIOS Reporter – Volume 4, No.1 – January 1980

“Small is beautiful” is one of those ugly, ungrammatical phrases – a piece of advertising jargon – which has wormed its way into contemporary parlance. It’s an irritating little phrase, which is far too neat to be (entirely) true, but it is devilishly clever too, for it sticks in the memory and cannot be cast out. Its author used it to classify an approach to the business of living in society (“life style”, if you prefer the jargon), yet, despite a distaste for the phrase, we feel that recent events suggest an application in the sphere of organ design. A publication recently came our way, describing the organs of a certain large parish church in the south of England…