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Making musical instruments out of recycled or discarded materials, ergo junk, is a worldwide phenomenon. There are entire orchestras in Venezuela and other relatively impoverished cultures, where children use junk instruments to participate in orchestras of their peers, learning to play and concertize together. There [...]
La fabricación de instrumentos musicales a partir de materiales reciclados o descartados, es decir, chatarra, es un fenómeno mundial. Existen orquestas enteras en Venezuela y otras culturas relativamente empobrecidas, donde los niños utilizan instrumentos desechados para participar en orquestas de sus compañeros, aprendiendo a tocar [...]