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Friday’s Recycled Instruments: Amazing What You Can Do With A Tin Can

Posted February 28, 2014 Warren SendersLeave a commentPosted in Recycling

Africa has long been a place where practically everything is eventually turned into a musical instrument. As we gradually surround ourselves with the detritus of industrial civilization, it is some comfort to realize that not everything that we’ve turned into trash has to stay that way. As with the repurposing of 55-gallon oil drums to […]

Making Guitars in A Malawi Refugee Camp

Posted January 16, 2014January 16, 2014 Warren SendersLeave a commentPosted in General, Recycling

L.G. Patron lives in the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi, a complex of shelters and dwellings that has housed refugees from several regional wars for many years. People in the camp and the surrounding area need guitars, so he’s been making them — using only a few basic tools and a lot of gumption. Check […]

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Friday’s Recycled Instruments: Amazing What You Can Do With A Tin Can

Making Guitars in A Malawi Refugee Camp