Field trip 101: Bamboo Organs

First, I would like to talk about our recent field trip in these certain locations:

• Bamboo Organs in Las Piñas 
• Ibong Adarna play in SM southmall
• Philippine Air force museum

It was an early Friday, I was sitting on the bus that the school rented for the high school student's field trip. I was with my busmate buddy, Deborah Jan, was already excited to eat the Pringles she brought. And as she was eating Pringles, I was writing down the questions from the brochure a teacher handed out in my orange notepad - so I can carry it and be able to write freely about the answers in the brochure. And for about how many minutes or maybe hours, we finally arrived at the first stop: the parish of St. Joseph in Las Piñas. I was really excited to see everything especially when I saw the Antillan house that looked somewhat like an old Spanish house and the parish. The parish looked really old but it was really taken care of. When we went in, we saw that the place was mostly made of cement and there were really kind people that greeted us. So we split up in teams and my assigned buddy was Lystra.
We were walking up the stairs and while we were up there we were asking the questions in the brochure to the tour guide. She told us about the history of the bamboo organ and how it was the only bamboo organ in the whole WORLD. It's truly amazing on how the bamboo organs were constructed and even if they repaired it, it's still 100 percent original. The bamboo organs were constructed by Fr. Diego Cera who was inspired to build the organs because Las Piñas was rich in bamboo at that time. The whole place was actually made by the people that lived in Las Piñas. Then the tour guide went down the stairs that led to the keyboard of the whole bamboo organ. She played the bamboo parts of the organ first.
 As said, the bamboo organs are composed of 1,031 pipes; 902 are made of bamboo and 129 are made of metal. The tour guide played the bamboo part and it was so gentle and it gave a very smooth sound, and on the other hand, the metal parts sounded like trumpets and it had a jazzy ring to it. The pajaritos, which I haven't told you about is a part of the organ that had a bird-like sound. Well, the bamboo organ can make different kinds of sound such as: the bird sound, trumpet, oboe, flautado, and tambor. Their is also the Bamboo Organ festivals, which is held every February. They actually have this festival to spread classical music to the Filipinos. Not to mention the bamboo organ is a National Cultural Treasure. We Filipinos should be proud of the bamboo organs.:-)