Recycled instruments
TEDx Pereira 2017
El Tiempo
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TEDxPereira: Armonía y Equilibrio was held on October 26, 2017 in the city of Pereira, Risaralda.
At this event, María Manuela Sánchez Gutiérrez, 16-year-old founder of the María Manuela company, gave her talk called "Violins with a soul", which deals with the history of her company.
María Manuela, the 'soul' of recycled musical instruments.
Since he couldn't have an instrument of his own, he made one from recycled materials.
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Time
The newspaper
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María Manuela Sánchez: The music of recycling.
Despite her young age and with the help of her mother, the young María Manuela Sánchez Gutiérrez, she has become a kind of artisan luthier dedicated to making musical instruments from recycled material.
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María Manuela, the 'soul' of recycled instruments.
The 16-year-old entrepreneur came up with the idea of making her own musical instrument.
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Pino Verde High School
Caracol Radio
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Manuela makes newsprint violins so more children can make their musical dreams come true
This 16-year-old girl has never been overcome by difficult circumstances and has carried out all her projects thanks to the support of her mother and grandmother. In the midst of the love of his family but the bullying of his former schoolmates, he gives us a life lesson.
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El Espectador
As music connects us, now I present to you María Manuela Sánchez, 17 years old, violinist, graduate of the Technological Institute of Dosquebradas, Risaralda, and student of Industrial Engineering. Creator of her brand of violins and violas, made with recycled materials. With his family they founded the Music Trash company and through it they reach vulnerable communities.
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These violins have a double soul because in addition to this piece they have the soul that Manuela Sánchez puts into each instrument that she makes, with ingenuity and passion, from recycled materials.
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RCN news
Radionics
Colombian 24
Music and recycling: stories of entrepreneurs. This is the story of María Manuela, whose love for music led her to undertake the construction of instruments with recyclable materials.
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A young Colombian woman makes violins with styrofoam, wood and newspaper. Manuela Sánchez makes violins with recycled materials that have great artistic quality and meet the requirements of master interpreters of these instruments.
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Caracol Radio
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María Manuela and her family are dedicated to building musical instruments out of recycled material and even started a company, Music Trash. María Manuela, her grandparents and her mother work here, each of them performs a part of the process.
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