AHEAD of its 50th anniversary in 2025, the International Bamboo Organ Festival (IBOF), scheduled between Feb. 18 and Mar. 3, 2024, commemorates 200 years of the Bamboo Organ.
The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ was completed in 1824 when Fr. Diego Cera installed the 128 metal trumpets, which in the Spanish tradition are placed horizontally in front of the façade of the organ. The organ could already play without the trumpets in 1819 with 747 speaking bamboo pipes that are now 205 years old.
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