Musical instruments from around the world · Global Voices
Juliana Rincón Parra

A Japanese instrument maker with his trumpet made from a bell pepper and a cucumber has been making its rounds on the internet,  so I'll bring a few other interesting instruments from elsewhere in the world. YouTube user 13strings (account currently closed) made an open call: to have everyone show their own home-made instruments on YouTube, and replies have rolled in including the following three: a whole orchestra made from recycled cans and plastic soda-bottles,  how to make didgeridoos, a bottle wind and water organ. From another place in the world, an instrument that may not be home made but certainly has a distinctive sound:  the  hurdy gurdy.
From Brazil, jamilgiudice has at least 5 different instruments made from recycled soft drink cans and bottles.
From Australia,  gwdidg shows us how aborigines harvest from termite hollowed-out gum trees what is possibly the world's oldest wind instrument, the didgeridoo:
From Singapore,  einrahseinraw  blows into tuned bottles, takes pictures of himself and proceeds to mix them up to play Toccata et Fugue in D Minor by Bach:
And to wrap things up, thanks to  avinograd from Russia comes a beautifully  rhythmic traditional folk song played in an instrument I had never seen in my life, the hurdy gurdy or gironde: