BIOS publishes a quarterly Reporter newsletter and magazine and a yearly Journal. Both contain articles on organ history, the Journal hoping to attract mature studies, the Reporter offering a place for exposure of interim or conjectural work.
The Journal archive is available under the ‘Resources’ tab but only to BIOS members. All editions of the BIOS Reporter are available through the website. Note Volume 9, No.4 (1985-4) was never published, hence the one missing edition.
If you are looking for uses of a particular word, the BIOS guide to ‘searching by keyword‘ may be helpful.
BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.2 – April 1977
One of the matters of crucial importance to those of us concerned with the preservation of the best British organs and the promotion of standardsof excellence in modern organ building in this country is the functioning of the faculty procedures within the Church of England. There are significant historic organs in the chapels of the Free Churches; there are others… read more
BIOS Reporter – Volume 1, No.1 – January 1977
If 1976 marked the auspicious beginning of BIOS with the Inaugural Conference at Cambridge, let us hope that 1977 will be the year when BIOS begins to make its influence felt (in a wholly constructive way) in matters connected with the British Organ. There is so much that we could do, too much, really – for there will always be… read more


