About seven years after its launch, the DtBOB website has welcomed more than one million visits! Taking advantage of an essential update for security reasons, DtBOB.2 is presented to you this first October 2022.
You will discover by clicking on the images and texts below, access to a dozen databases that will facilitate your research in the field of the organ in Belgium.
Nicholas Thistlethwaite Editorial. 4
Nicholas Thistlethwaite Peterhouse, Cambridge: the documentation of a lost organ, 1635-1667. 6
David Griffiths Preston of York: a Restoration organ-builder and his family connections. 38
Paul Tindall John Baron and Nelson Hall of Upton Scudamore: the rise of the pipe rack and the universal village organ. 45
Danielle Padley A 'strange combination of duties': Charles Garland Verrinder, not just the Synagogue organist. 59
Maximillian Elliott Thomas Hopkins and his children: the York branch of a 'pre-eminently' musical family. 85
John Scott Whiteley The Sonata for Organ by Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946). 100
John Norman The neo-Baroque revival and its influence on the organ-building establishment in Britain. 116
John Rowntree 'Something new, something lively and clean and vital' — reflections on the classical organ revival in Britain, and the work and influence of Grant, Degens & Bradbeer, Peter Collins, Nigel Church and Kenneth Tickell. 138
Richard Moore Towards a kaleidoscopic hermeneutic: British organ composition and organ-building culture, 1945-2000. 157
Obituaries 175
Book reviews 181
Contributors 186
Journal of the British Institute of Organ Studies