{"id":809,"date":"2012-01-19T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2012-01-19T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T13:44:08","slug":"inspiration-paraguayan-youth-music-group-makes-its-instruments-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/01\/19\/inspiration-paraguayan-youth-music-group-makes-its-instruments-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration: Paraguayan youth music group makes its instruments from scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-810\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/framvarios5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-810\" title=\"FramVarios5\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/framvarios5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/framvarios5.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/framvarios5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Paraguayan members of Sonido de la Tierra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My friend Iby turned me on to an amazing project in Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p>Very much like Venezuela&#8217;s El Sistema and Scola Cantorum, it starts with a group of dedicated people who are reaching out to at-risk communities to provide children with proper schooling as well as access to music. The Paraguayan project, which turns 10 this year, now has approximately 15,000 alumni.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like other such organizations around the world, they scrape together donations of instruments as well as funds to buy more. But, in a novel twist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonidosdelatierra.org.py\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Sonidos de la Tierra<\/a> (Sounds of the Earth) also scrapes together scrap to make their own.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a neat video. You don&#8217;t have to understand Spanish to appreciate what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmp5E9gEYvU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Iby turned me on to an amazing project in Paraguay. Very much like Venezuela&#8217;s El Sistema and Scola Cantorum, it starts with a group of dedicated people who are reaching out to at-risk communities to provide children with proper schooling as well as access to music. The Paraguayan project, which turns 10 this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,31,36,37,60],"tags":[396,6457,1625,2558,2779,3082],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/framvarios5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-d3","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}