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Orchestra Plays Music with Vegetables!

By Alex in Food & Drinks, Music on Aug 12, 2006 at 3:04 pm


Apparently, vegetables can be made into fine musical instruments …

The sound of 90 pounds of finely tuned cucumbers, leeks, potatoes, radishes, peppers and other vegetables entertained a German audience at a weekend concert by the Viennese Vegetable Orchestra.

The nine-piece orchestra plays a range of original compositions on instruments constructed from vegetables — including a flute made from a carrot, a saxophone carved out of a cucumber and a pumpkin converted into a double bass.

"I would never have thought you could get sound out of a cucumber," a young woman at the concert said.

Link | Vienna Vegetable Orchestra’s website (complete with sample music!)


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  1. Danno
    Aug 15th, 2006 at 7:58 am

    The music definately sounds organic, but in kind of a gross way. I am left feeling slightly disturbed.

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