This orchestra only plays instruments made out of vegetables
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A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record.

The Vegetable Orchestra holds a unique distinction in the music world as they exclusively use instruments crafted out of fresh vegetables. Their extraordinary talent led them to secure a Guinness World Record for the highest number of concerts performed by a vegetable orchestra.

Originating in Vienna, Austria, in 1998, this ensemble comprising 11 musicians has mesmerized audiences with 344 remarkable concerts. The orchestra showcases an array of specially crafted vegetable instruments, including a carrot recorder, a cucumberphone, a radish bass flute, percussive eggplant pieces, and a leek violin.

Exploring the unconventional sounds of their vegetable instruments, the orchestra aims to create a unique auditory experience. Their belief in the distinctive sounds they produce is evident in their statement on their website, where they express that their music is often reminiscent of animals or abstract tones.


The Vegetable Orchestra
The Vegetable Orchestra has played a total of 344 concerts, which earned them a world record. Youtube/vegetableorchestra

The innovative group is constantly inventing new instruments — and they have to be prepared to improvise, since the vegetables can break or dry out while they are on stage.

After their concerts, they even serve the audience soup made of the vegetables they had leftover from preparing the instruments.

The musicians — who come from backgrounds in genres like electronic, rock, punk and classical — hope to show audiences that music can be created from just about anything.

“You can make music out of nearly everything, each thing contains a very specific acoustic quality and represents an intricate universe of sound,” it continued on its site.

“Each thing could be a tool to open up that point of view.”


The Vegetable Orchestra members making instruments out of vegetables
The group uses fresh veggies at each performance, and is constantly inventing new instruments. Youtube/vegetableorchestra

The creative bunch, which tours around the world, only asks that people stop questioning them about whether or not they are all vegan or vegetarians.

“No we are not. Don’t ask again,” they said on their website. “We’ve heard this question 3 million times.”

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