British Institute of Organ Studies

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The British Institute of Organ Studies is more commonly known by its acronym BIOS.

The aims of BIOS are

To promote objective, scholarly research into the history of the organ and its music in all its aspects, and, in particular, into the organ and its music in Britain.
To conserve the sources and materials for the history of the organ in Britain, and to make them accessible to scholars.
To work for the preservation, and where necessary, the faithful restoration of historic organs in Britain.
To encourage an exchange of scholarship with similar bodies and individuals abroad, and to promote, in Britain, a greater appreciation of historical overseas schools of organ-building.

BIOS publishes a quarterly Reporter newsletter and magazine and a yearly Journal which contains articles on organ history.

BIOS is also responsible for the National Pipe Organ Register, which aims to catalogue all British pipe organs in a database. The database is available for searching free of charge on the internet.