{"id":60471,"date":"2012-12-05T19:35:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=60471"},"modified":"2012-12-05T19:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:35:36","slug":"watch-this-band-play-with-killer-gunmetal-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/12\/05\/watch-this-band-play-with-killer-gunmetal-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch this Band Play with Killer Gunmetal Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Limer<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/47842265\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Confiscated weapons are always destroyed, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the wreckage can&#8217;t be used for something. Artist Pedro Reyes took the remains of 6,700 guns\u2014many of which had probably seen some action\u2014and used their dismembered parts to build instruments for a makeshift gunmetal orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>The instruments were all constructed out of pistols, shotguns, and even automatic weapons and then used to play a rendition of &#8220;Imagine.&#8221; They&#8217;re currently on display in Istanbul until December 12th, but chances are you won&#8217;t be able to go see them there. You can hear them in action in the video above, and while they&#8217;re not the most in tune instruments you&#8217;ve ever heard, but they&#8217;re not bad enough to do any moral harm, at least not anymore. [TreeHugger]<\/p>\n<p>via Watch this Band Play with Killer Gunmetal Instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Limer Confiscated weapons are always destroyed, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the wreckage can&#8217;t be used for something. Artist Pedro Reyes took the remains of 6,700 guns\u2014many of which had probably seen some action\u2014and used their dismembered parts to build instruments for a makeshift gunmetal orchestra. The instruments were all constructed out of pistols, shotguns, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[1753],"class_list":["post-60471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}