Making homemade musical instruments out of every-day recycled materials

Abstract

As educators, the question of how we could improve learning, what practices we would need to change as a teachers' association in order to alter the learning culture in school and perhaps make some subjects more enjoyable, has led us to consider that the best response would be sustained efforts and cooperation between teachers and students in an interdisciplinary learning framework, along with real-life experience of students (Kapetanidou, 2006). In this study, an effort to organize a scientific theoretical background for homemade musical instruments was made so that a group of students from the Music School of Drama could craft and exhibit them in a classroom museum, as well as use them in an orchestra. Can household items such as glasses, spoons and buckets get into the Music School of Drama and make music? This is not some kind of a grandstand play! The answer given is related to the utilization of modern views for the concept of "informal music" in formal settings and museum education.