{"id":465,"date":"2016-08-30T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T09:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willembliss.co.uk\/?page_id=465"},"modified":"2018-11-16T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T11:56:05","slug":"musical-scrapheap-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.willembliss.co.uk\/?page_id=465","title":{"rendered":"Musical Scrapheap Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does your school have a pile of broken classroom furniture or sports equipment waiting to go to the dump?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invite the innovative musical instrument maker Will Embliss to your school and let him sort through all the unwanted and broken school furniture. He will pick out the items and materials that he can make musical instruments from and work with your pupils in small groups, teaching them how to use tools to transform mundane items into wonderful musical instruments. These can then become classroom or playground resources.<\/p>\n

At Fleet School Spring 2017,\u00a0 students made instruments from rejected \/ unwanted items with my advice and direction. Leading up to the event the school and parents saved and brought in items. Old school chairs became gongs and chime bars, the wooden slats from an old bed base became a xylophone, the metal frame from the bed-base became a gamelan, waste bins became resonators and stands for instruments, tin cans became agogos with studding added. Document cases became tube drums. A stair-gate became a resonator and stand for holding gongs. Beaters were made with dowelling from baby’s cots with inner tube wrapped around. The xylophone is tuned A= 440. The gamelan and chime bars are not so accurate but still have pleasing pitch differences.<\/p>\n

This project shows that,\u00a0with time and creativity, one can add value to redundant school equipment and items parents no longer want.\u00a0After several days at the school children were saying that they had seen a discarded item on the way to school and had fantastic suggestions for how it could be transformed, thus changing their mindset about waste.<\/p>\n

Have a look at recent projects in which Will was the resident musician in schools at Multikids Inclusive Academy in\u00a0Accra<\/a> and at Druk White Lotus School in\u00a0Lada<\/a>kh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Very reasonable prices start from \u00a3750 for 5 days. 3 and 4 day projects are also possible.<\/p>\n

The Musical Scrapheap Challenge is aimed at KS2 -Y4 upwards.\u00a0Will has considerable experience of working with pupils of all abilities.<\/p>\n

Amanda Budge – Head of Multikids Academy Accra\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWill did some amazing work with our kids. I really liked the way that he took our learners, many of whom have learning challenges, through the process of making a xylophone step by step. This included finding the wood around the place. I was fascinated by the way the kids focused one on one with Will to achieve two beautiful instruments. Both were pitched \u2013 one diatonic and one pentatonic. Tribute to the success of this artists\u2019 residency was heard in the beautiful pieces performed by Will and the students. I recommend this residency for any school interested in recycling,remaking, music innovation, creativity and developing skills “.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The legs and frame from a broken table are now a xylophone at Multikids Inclusive Academy Accra<\/a>, Ghana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The keys of these metallophones at Druk White Lotus School<\/a>, Ladakh, are made from broken chair legs. The frames for the metallophones are also made from broken chairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bed-base with metal frame found for use at Fleet School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wooden slats from the bed-frame above used to make a xylophone tuned to A=440 by the Y6 pupils at Fleet school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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2 “gamelans” made from the metal bed-base frame by Y6 pupils at Fleet School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bass mbira made from a steel waste bin and wooden laths from a cot\u00a0made by Y6 pupils at Fleet School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stair gate resonator with chair leg gongs and biscuit tins supported by two discarded school chairs made by Y6 pupils at Fleet School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A waste-bin drum kit made from and old chair back which acts as a scraper. Chair leg gongs plus cymbals and gongs from discarded kitchenware\u00a0made by Y6 pupils at Fleet School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Document case tube drums supported on a steel waste bin made by Y6 pupils at Fleet School. The waste bins also function as a resonators<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beaters in the Beater bucket made by Y6 pupils at Fleet school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bed base agogos from off cuts of the metal bed-base<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tin can and studding agogos\u00a0made by Y6 pupils at Fleet school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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