Category: BIOS Reporter

The faculty of hearing is one which we tend to take for granted. Not simply, that is, in the sense that we do not appreciate it until deprived of it, but also, in the sense that we frequently fail to make proper use of it. A person who is used to the noise and bustle…

This issue of the Reporter has turned out to be rather dominated by William Hill. Ho doubt this reveals something about the Editor’s tastes, but it also underlines Hill’s central importance in the history of English organ building. Perhaps we may venture – without any wish to tread on the Reverend B.B.Edmonds’ toes – to…

Central to the Aims of BIOS is the need to preserve the best examples of British organ building. They are the material sources for the appreciation of the art of the British schools of organ building; without them, we should be unable to form a complete impression of the British tradition of organ composition and…

Some of the longer-standing members of BIOS may recall a sentence from our original manifesto: “The committee does not intend to strive for a large membership”. What was meant by this was that sheer head-counting should not be a preoccupation; the Foundation Committee hoped that those who joined the society would be prepared to take…

This editorial will close our remarks (for the time being) upon the subject of the Church of England diocesan advisory service. Having mentioned some of the problems of the system in our April issue, we went on to consider a striking example of the penalties which those who infringe the faculty jurisdiction in respect of…

In our last issue we commenced a discussion of the working of the Faculty procedure in the Church of England as it affects work on organs. Despite deficiencies in the system (upon some of which we commented) a recent Judgement in the court of the Chancellor of Southwark diocese has encouraged us to hope that…

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…

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 –…