A Curious Old Organ.
The most curious of all of, the old organs is the organ of bamboo in the barrio of Las Pinas, Philippine Islands. In this instrument, Padre Diego Cera built himself a monument in bamboo, and no more interesting and unique memorial could be found; - When he went to the Philippines in 1785 to build Morgans, there was neither metal nor suitable wood, nor leather, nor pipe metal, nor wire, nor keys, nor anything else with which organs were wont to be btiilt. With a genius equal to an eighteenth century Edison, Padre Cera rose to the occasion and built an organ of bamboo. The old pipes are of every size;dow.i to an inch long, and the cane that has stood there much ov«r a hundred years is as hard as iron and apparently might last for a thousand years to come.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 595
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145A Curious Old Organ. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 595
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