Music from veggies?

Who would have thought that people would have been able to make a musical instrument from a Vegetable?

All around the world people are no longer making musical instruments from the 'normal' materials or junk, but are exploring new sounds and new ways to create instruments from all different kinds of vegetables!


As an imaginative way to teach through creativity I looked at trying to make adapt an activity like this for children in the classroom and found innovative and imagination capturing workshops help by a project called Growing Sounds:
Growing Sound is a cross-curricular workshop, for primary and secondary schools, that uses making musical instruments from fruit and vegetables as the focus for exploring music, the physics of sound, plant biology and the environment.

Using peppers to make shakers, watermelons and pumpkins for drums, carrots for kazoos and cucumbers for clarinets are the more basic examples of the instruments that can be made. This activity provides a blank canvas for children to explore not only the food and their physical properties but the range of different sounds and effects that can be made using them in different ways.  

Detailed videos of how to make some of these veggie instruments can be found here @ 
http://www.growingsounds.sound101.org/veg.html