Musical Instruments Made from Trash

What sounds can you make with trash? Get inspired to make your musical instruments from recycled materials – especially percussion and stringed instruments. Or if you have an instrument that is beyond repair, find fun ways to creatively reuse it. Performance Groups Who Make Instruments from Trash Landfill Harmonic Located in Paraguay, these students play in an orchestra where all the instruments have been built from a landfill, and now they travel the world. TED talk Scrap Arts This Canadian music group designed instruments from a variety of trash materials, and I’m going to see them play on April 20 in Maryland at the Strathmore! Zeke Leonard This professor at the School of Design at the University of Syracuse is constantly inventing new ways to make instruments from trash. Ken Butler The photo at the top of this blog shows Ken at the World Maker Faire in New York City in 2015, when my family saw his instruments in person. Bash the Trash This New Jersey-based group teaches schools and community groups how to make instruments from trash. Musical Instruments You Can Make from Trash Visit the Trashmagination Pinterest board of musical instruments made from trash for lots of ideas! Ugly Stick This instrument is from Newfoundland, where I was born. It is made from a mop, rubber boot and metal bottle caps. The audio in the podcast of the ugly stick is from this video: Video from Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism Ugly Stick Tutorial How to Host a Workshop to Make Newfoundland Ugly Sticks Show Details Script for this podcast episode about making musical instruments from recycled materials and trash (not a transcript but gives the main ideas) The Trashmagination podcast theme music is Kitchen from the Marian Circle Drum Brigade. How I made a gomi-daiko or practice drum from a plastic garbage can