BIOS Reporter

Since the last issue of the Reporter our first AGM in two years has finally taken place. May I thank those members who signed in for the ‘Zoom’ meeting and joined us on July 2nd. It was a smaller gathering than we had hoped for – we had thought that the absence of time and cost involved in travel might… read more

The past year, in its different ways, has been something of a learning curve for us all. A common factor to emerge has undoubtedly been the arrival of ‘Zoom’ and other similar conference facilities that have done so much to enable face-to-face communications to continue, whether between families and social groups or for the management of business in organisations such… read more

Writing a report at the end of a year in which we managed to hold only one members’ meeting, and at a time when the events calendar for the current year is a complete blank, feels rather strange. Nevertheless members can be reassured that even if it has not exactly been ‘business as usual’, there has still been much going… read more

And so we come towards to close of another year: but what a year! It started so well for BIOS with a particularly successful and well attended Bernard Edmonds Research Conference at Birmingham, but the alarm bells were already beginning to ring. Professor Mattheo Malagoli, who was due to present one of the papers, was unable to make the journey… read more

The months have ticked by and at last we are beginning to experience the early stages of a return to a more normal way of life. There is a long way to go, however, with the possibility of further new outbreaks to set things back and hold up the recovery. In our individual lives we have had to accept the… read more

On behalf of BIOS Council, I send greetings to all BIOS members, their families and loves ones, and express the hope that in your own individual circumstances you are managing to cope with the very different way of life that has been forced on us all, and that you have succeeded in staying clear of the dreadful effects of the… read more

As I write this article, I am conscious that we have just passed from the decade that saw the 40th anniversary of BIOS into the decade in which we will celebrate our half-centenary. There is much to look forward to, and Council is already giving some thought to a suitable project to mark that important milestone when it arrives. We… read more

The rise of the internet and websites, on the back of the gradual demise of ‘snail mail’, has brought with it an enormous increase in the number of enquiries that come to organisations such as ours. It is so much easier, for those who are interested, to research and discover who to approach, and where, and subsequently a quick and… read more

It is good to be able to reflect that the long sought-after goal of getting the various organisations devoted to organs and organists to work together, rather than just in our individual ‘ivory towers’, has in the last few years started to become an established reality. The jointly arranged Organfest (RCO, IAO and BIOS) is now firmly established on the… read more

I began my column in the January edition of BIOS Reporter by talking about the expansion of the number and variety of products available from the BIOS Webstore. As a further development of that policy, Council, at its meeting at the end of January, agreed to publish our member Jim Berrow’s long-awaited book on John Nicholson of Worcester, which we… read more