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The Vienna Orchestra That Makes Music With Vegetables

First songs, then soup.
Heidrum Henke

You learn a lot from talking with people who spend their spare time playing instruments made out of vegetables. As Jörg* Piringer, a musician in Austria’s Vegetable Orchestra, tells CityLab, there’s almost no corner of a grocer’s stock room that can’t be carved and coaxed into making some sort of note.