{"id":4188,"date":"2016-03-28T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T07:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2016-03-28T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T07:26:56","slug":"a-musical-use-for-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4188","title":{"rendered":"A musical use for trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Favio Ch\u00e1vez, a technician at a Paraguayan landfill site, formed the the Cateura Orchestra of Recycled Instruments: an orchestra comprising of the children of landfill works. The orchestra was designed to encourage musical education in an low socio-economic area. A violin would hold more value than a landfill worker&#8217;s house. However, by creating instruments out of trash, Favio Ch\u00e1vez was able to offer instruments to a wide range of children to create music with. The orchestra has now toured internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Instruments include a violin made out of metal oven trays, cello made out of oil barrels, and a guitar made out of a can which used to contain dessert. Aida, 14, plays an violin made out of an oil paint tin. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care that my violin is made out of recycled parts,&#8221; she says. &#8220;To me, it&#8217;s a treasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Gilbert, &#8220;Paraguayan landfill orchestra makes sweet music from rubbish&#8221;, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, 26 April 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/apr\/26\/paraguayan-landfill-orchestra-music\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read article and view video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favio Ch\u00e1vez, a technician at a Paraguayan landfill site, formed the the Cateura Orchestra of Recycled Instruments: an orchestra comprising of the children of landfill works. The orchestra was designed to encourage musical education in an low socio-economic area. A violin would hold more value than a landfill worker&#8217;s house. However, by creating instruments out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[830,831],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","tag-paraguayan-landfill-orchestra","tag-recycled-instruments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}