Beth Blenz-Clucas blogs about music for kids that grownups will love too
Children make music out of just about anything they can find – pots and pans, buckets, wooden spoons, your best china – you name it, they’ll want to bang on it. When it’s not destructive, this kind of early music play is extremely important for kids. At least one family music artist, Billy Jonas, never left his childhood instruments behind, as he creates a wall of sound from garbage bins, oatmeal boxes and carpet tubes… and a set of glass bottles.
There’s something about moisture, air and glass that can create sounds ranging from goofy to ethereal. One example of the latter is this YouTube video showing an artist performing a Mozart piece on a glass armonica. While it is certainly very refined, clearly what we have here is music-making from a glorified pop bottle:
