Gas Tank Orchestra

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Gas Tank Orchestra

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Here’s an entire orchestra made up of discarded automobile gas tanks – “Gas Tank Orchestra is a trash-picking do-it-yourself reprocessing project featuring electro-acoustic instruments built from junked automobile gas tanks salvaged from New Orleans’ side streets. The tanks have been fitted with strings, pipes, hoses, mouthpieces, etc. and born again as bass, harp, zither, brass, reeds, kalimba, flute, didgeridoo, and percussion.” [via] – Link. & sample here.

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Made on Earth – Reports from the world of backyard technology, including a shopping cart go-kart, the “Solar Death Ray,” a demolished house sculpture, a gas tank bass instrument, and some seriously big speakers. MAKE 03Page 16.

6 thoughts on “Gas Tank Orchestra

  1. amybean says:

    Don’t miss the music by Split Lip Rayfield
    http://www.rhapsody.com/splitliprayfield/more.html

    A band member is fighting cancer, so I doubt they are touring, but they are amazing and super fun.

  2. amybean says:

    Don’t miss the music by Split Lip Rayfield
    http://www.rhapsody.com/splitliprayfield/more.html

    A band member is fighting cancer, so I doubt they are touring, but they are amazing and super fun.

  3. amybean says:

    Don’t miss the music by Split Lip Rayfield
    http://www.rhapsody.com/splitliprayfield/more.html

    A band member is fighting cancer, so I doubt they are touring, but they are amazing and super fun.

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