Kids play Mozart with violins made from garbage
Published: December 15, 2012
By PEDRO SERVIN — Associated Press
In this Dec. 11, 2012 photo, a young musician tunes his cello, made from recycled materials,
during a practice session with "The Orchestra of Instruments Recycled From Cateura" in Cateura, a vast
landfill outside Paraguay's capital of Asuncion, Paraguay. Children from the orchestra use instruments
fashioned out of recycled materials taken from a landfill where their parents eke out livings as trash-
pickers, and about 20 of them regularly perform the music of Beethoven and Mozart, Henry Mancini
and the Beatles. - Jorge Saenz — AP Photo
CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks from what must have been an elegant table make a violin. Bottle caps work perfectly well as keys for a saxophone.
A chamber orchestra of 20 children uses these and other instruments fashioned out of recycled materials from a landfill where their parents eke out livings as trash-pickers, regularly performing the music of Beethoven and Mozart, Henry Mancini and the Beatles. A concert they put on for The Associated Press also featured Frank Sinatra's "My Way" and some Paraguayan polkas.
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