A lovely use for recycling plastic bottles!

[Jarvisfamily4]

Found this site tonight. Be sure to listen to the various clips - - the sound of Mother Earth singing!!!!
http://greatgreengadgets.com/gadgets/2007/03/12/make-your-own-wind-organ-with-recycled-bottles/

along simliar lines - listen to the 'tracks' produced by this wind-harp:

http://home.comcast.net/~botronics/mfharp.html

I so want to make one of these!

[Dryadia2]

Wow! Way Cool!
Thanks for sharing this JF4!

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[Crowsfeet]

Hello JarvisFamily4 -
A great idea! I've seen a similar project done with empty wine bottles - put them upside down on a stick and and the wind whistles thru the opening. The stick would have to be smaller than the bottle opening to allow for the wind to go in. As we can't recycle glass where I live - I think it's a project I'll try. Wine comes in so many interesting shape bottles and colors!! If any one does this, I'd love to hear about the results.

Crowsfeet

[Ade Sundog]

Brilliant!

Nice one

[wyeuro]

Looks interesting. I'm going to give it a try. I do a children's page every quarter and that'll be idea for the little bards to try - simple enough, and very effective - and if I can do it, so can they!
wyverne /|\

[Mneme]

In Zürich last year (or year before last, I kind of forget which), plastic bottles were converted into Christmas lights, and it really looked festive and different, but not in a DIY kind of way. So there's another idea out there, maybe ...

Mneme

[Jarvisfamily4]

I tried this with one lonely little bottle, and, though I have not heard it work (the hot-glue that I used to attach it to the stick didn't last through the weather, and the bottle fell off!), my husband said it was working, and was driving him nuts trying to figure out what it was!

So, according to him, it does work! I'm going to make a ring of them in the meadow, when I get that done.

[Corwen]

Its not really recycling though is it, as the end use isn't really a use its more like just storing in the outdoors... Personally I find plastic not an aesthetic material to have in the garden.

Plastic bottles make reasonable cloches for seedlings though if you really can't recycle them into more plastic, but better not to buy them in the first place.

[wyeuro]

i tried it too, with one small bottle and a larger one, and i pushed them onto bamboo poles instead of nailing the tops to a board. as corwen says, they're not pretty, but could look all right for kids if you paint them. i've got mine in an inconspicuous place. they whistle along merrily when the wind's at all westerly, which it usually is. to me it sounds like a conversation, words spoken too low for the words to be made out, and it's strangely soothing, as if it gives the breeze vocal chords and the wind is pleased.

wyverne /|\

[Keesh]

haha this is great, had a smile from ear to ear listening to the sounds they make

[Jarvisfamily4]

Corwin - the world is not perfect. We're doing the best we can with what we've got to deal with. It's not like we're going out buying plastic bottles to make this project with! Mine was one I pulled out of a garbage can at the gas station.

I think putting different colored ones and different shaped ones could be sort of pretty, especially if the poles they are on are decorated? My green one isn't half bad.

[Corwen]

Sorry must have had my green fascist hat on that day!

[Mellinda]

Hi
Musical plastic bottles, I must have a go at this thanks for link to idea.



Peace and love

Mellinda

[Brigantia]

Fascinating, but I wonder if the sound could dis-orient birds and other animals nearby.