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Show Wonderful Bamboo Organ. In the old church of Los Pinas, near Manila, Is a wonderful bamboo organ built by tho Recolctos parish priest of that town. Father Diego Cera, in the year 1793. The upright bamboo pipes do not look unlike the metal pipes In a modern church organ, but a second set of pipes rest horizontally on a rack just above the keyboard. The organ is in use to this day and tne Damooo is well preserved. Father Cera having a secret process of preserving tho wood which he never divulged. |