Yap Ling & Grace Lee - Outside of the St.Joseph's Parish Church, Las Pinas where the only Bamboo Organ in the world is housed.
Grace Lee standing in front of the entrance to the Bamboo Organ.
Builder of the Bamboo Organ
Augustinian Recollet
First Parish Priest for Las Pinas
- Musician, architect, organ builder, botanist, physician, painter & geologist
- Born in Graus (Huesca), Spain on July 26, 1762 where he is known among older people as
“Monsen Canas” (Mister Bamboo)
- In leaves for the Philippines in October 1790 and arrives in Manila in July 1792
- One year after his arrival, he is entrusted with the construction of a pipe organ (33 stops) for San Nicholas Church at Intramuros, Manila (destroyed together with the church in 1945)
- On December 26, 1795, Fr. Diego Cera, the first Parish Priest at Las Pinas construct the church (1792-1819) and the Bamboo Organ (1816-1824)
- On May 2, 1832 due to illness he has to leave his parish.
- He is appointed as President Prior of the Convent of San Sebastian in Manila
- He died one month later at the age of 70
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