Posted on 03/06/2025 7:54:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
The 11-piece Vegetable Orchestra formed in Vienna, Austria, in 1999, when musicians of various backgrounds came together with the idea of carving veggies into instruments
The performers have now perfected the art of playing with their food. Their instruments include carrots carved into recorders and leeks into mandolins.
The orchestra was awarded the Guinness World Record for the most concerts by a vegetable orchestra after playing their 344th show.
The musicians said they carve fresh vegetables before every performance, as their instruments only last for about 6 hours before starting to rot or losing their shape.
The orchestra told Guinness World Records that only one subject is off-limits during their concerts: asking whether the musicians are vegetarians.
"No we are not. Don't ask again,"
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Was Greta one of the instruments?
Wow!! Something that any kid (or adult) does.
They call that music?
“Randy, don’t play your food! Eat it!”
So. to make a piccolo, do you have to carve a flute out of a cucumber and then brine it?
Turnip the volume!
And I was pondering the question as to whether the autoharp is a serious instrument.
LOL!
I checked, expecting Steve Goodman’s “The Vegetable Song”. :^)
or maybe Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, “Dodge Veg-O-Matic”...
Kamala should join them and sing word salads!
Who can afford to play with food nowadays? Is the Vienna food orchestra getting Biden regime kickback funding?
You beat me to it, wanting the former vegetable-in-chief to apply for a good beating.
Not to mention Franz Gruber.
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