Vegetable instruments

Japanese radish scraper

This is an easy to make percussion instrument, where notches are cut along a hard vegetable or fruit to create ridges then another hard vegetable is scrapped along the ridges to make the sound.

Ingredients:

• 1x Hard fruit or vegetable, we used a Daikon (Japanese radish), because they are long and hard.
• 1x Kitchen knife
• 1x Carrot (or similar) to do the scraping

Method:

Cut ridges into the vegetable. Scrape with the other vegetable. Sometimes this instrument can be rather quiet because vegetables are not hard enough. By placing the end of the scrapper on a table (or maybe a Tupperware box) the vibrations can pass from the scraper into the table and amplify the sound.

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