I absolutely adore this! The first quote you have rings so true.

As a hired musician around 20 years ago, an older cousin and his wife come to one of my gigs. One thing I really dig is watching the ladies dance while I'm performing (I dig it even more when they come and dance with me as I'm playing --- but that's been a rare occasion).

The day after the show, he made a comment that stayed with me until this day. He said: "you know cousin, you do something that makes people meet and fall in love together!", and he's absolutely right! Music has a type of power that I just can't explain... I can only express it through performance.

I loved this video and I wish at least half the world felt the same about music than I do... if that were the case, we'd be a much happier and more beautiful civilization...

Thanks for sharing this video Stormdancer777! I felt its importance!

Astounding - what a great and wonderful example of the loving potential of human beings.

"Well - we shouldnt throw away people either."

Thanks.

Beautiful.

We need more threads like this on ATS.

Neat...

Instruments from recycled stuff isn't that new though. I remember checking similar stuff out on pre-history of rock music. Some depression era steel guitars were made like this, from found bits and pieces. (A few blues legends supposedly learned to play the way they did on home-made guitars before they became famous.) Later on, other developments with steel guitars lead to the creation of the electric guitar - early models of which were pretty much ad-hoc too.

And I'm sure this kind of thing goes back even further, just something to do with human ingenuity.

Sometimes what's really surprising though is the quality of sound that can be had from junk (doesn't occur often, but some combinations of bits and pieces have a sweet spot and seem like they're made to go together), particularly considering what people pay to get a similar timbre from instruments made using more traditional materials and methods.

Now if one of these people in Paraguay has access the internet, they could probably make some money selling these unique instruments. It's a niche market (scratch-made instruments), but one that does exist.

Really enjoyed this thread.

Also his comment in the video about: you hear that people shouldn't throw away trash, but they shouldn't throw away people either.

That is the Scarsity Program, in third world or developing/struggling countries, and in our own, so many people living below the level of needs being met, even close to home, or those struggling just above the poverty line for their families, size, where needs are just met in a spartan way, but there is no extra. No dreams developed, no future other than plugging into the slave jobs if you have health, but thrown off on the heap pile if its gone. Kept unable to live your joy, develop your gifts, thrown away.

I denounce and renounce this world. We need to notice those around us, and work to empower every single person and child.