Record no. MRB-2026-005827

World's Only Surviving 19th-Century Bamboo Pipe Organ

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Built by Spanish friar Diego Cera between 1816 and 1824, the Bamboo Organ of Las Pinas contains 1,031 pipes, 902 of them made of bamboo. It is recognized as the only 19th-century bamboo organ in the Philippines still surviving and functioning, and is widely described as the only pipe organ of its kind in the world.