The restoration of the
Bamboo Organ of Las Piñas by Johannes Klais Orgelbau of Bonn, Germany started
the revival of Pipe Organ awareness.
The yearly week-long concerts of the Bamboo Organ Festival made it possible
for quality Organ Music to be heard and experienced in this part of the
world.
Twenty years after the first concert of the Bamboo Organ, through the efforts
of the Belgian CICM priests, Fr. Leo Renier and Fr. Mark Lessage with help
from their European friends particularly Dr. Johann Trummer of Graz, Austria,
Filipino Organists and Organbuilders came back from their studies in Europe to
continue the revival process of Pipe Organ Music and Organbuilding here in the
Philippines.
In 1994, the Diego Cera Organbuilders, Inc. was established making it possible
for new tracker pipe organs to be built locally and old organs to be
restored. They have started to export their instrument to Europe last
year.
