Before I go ahead and make some suggestions, this amazing short video fell into my hands and I would like to share it, with you. it’s shows how this community in Cateura, Paraguay, live on land filled dumping grounds, they earn their living by retrieving junk from rubbish, that can be recycled and made use of. They are know as the garbage workers.
An enviromental engineer Favio Chavez, saw children living around this rubbish dump were in great poverty, he wanted to help them, so he started up a musical school, but these children couldn’t afford to buy instruments, a violin would cost more than a house.
What happened next was incredible. An woodcutter, managed to make musical instruments out of junk! He was given violin template and he managed to cut, carve and make a violins out of trash. Then he would make drums, guitars, double base the same, all out of throw-outs!
He would make violins, out of oven trays, drums from oil barrels, saxophones and trumpets from drain pipes, the drum skins out of x-ray plates and guitars out of dessert tins.
Here is the ‘Recycled harmonic orchestra’