THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ORGAN STUDIES
             THE BERNARD EDMONDS RECENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE

                         THE BARBER INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
                                        SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2010

   Draft Programme (Subject to Confirmation)

  10.15    Registration & Coffee
  10.45    Young's Temperament: 'The Actual Practice of the Best Instrument Makers' - Where did it
                come from? - David Shuker & Martin Renshaw
  11.15    Peterborough Fragments - Hilary Davidson
  11.45    Norwich Cathedral Organ: A Short History - John Norman
  12.15    Great Scott! - Jim Berrow
  12.45     British Organ Archive (BOA): An Update - Chris Kearl
  13.00    Lunch
  14.00    Anneessens in England - José Hopkins
  14.30    The Changing Relationship between Organists and their Employers during the 19thC' - Nigel Browne
  15.00    Haworth Organs at the time of the Brontës and subsequently - Richard Hird
  15.20    William Sweetland - A Hundred Years on - Gordon Curtis
  15.50     Q & A   (Chair: John Norman)
  16.00    Tea & Close
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                                                                   BOOKING FORM

  Please reserve a place at the BIOS Day Conference at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham,
  on Saturday 27 February 2010 at £25.00.  Cheques should be made payable to 'BIOS'.  

  Please fill in a separate booking form (or photocopy) for each person

  Name (including title)...........................................................................................................................................

  Address...................................................................................................................................................................

  Tel No (Eve)...........................        Tel No (Day)..........................................      e-mail:...........................................

  Note 1:  Acknowledgements will be sent by e-mail.  If you do not have an e-mail address, and require an
  acknowledgement, please send an SAE with your booking form.

  Note 2: Jim Berrow extends an invitation for Delegates to return to his home in nearby Edgbaston at the
  end of the Conference for light refreshments and an opportunity to see and hear the Robert Shaftoe house
  organ, 2002 (IIP/6).

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  Please return this booking form (or a photocopy) to:
                                      
                                      Melvin Hughes [BIOS Meetings],
                                      Ashcroft, 10 Ridgegate Close, REIGATE, Surrey, RH2 0HT
                
              Tel: 01737 241355   e-mail: biosmeetings@hotmail.co.uk