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Reclaimers Online is a community based blogging network about overcoming adversity through building instruments and making music together.

The Reclaimers Community Music Project is based in Brisbane and holds regular, free workshops for people experiencing disadvantage to learn how to make musical instruments. The instruments are made very cheaply from ‘reclaimed’ materials, using only basic hand tools.

Regular participants at the workshops, make up The Reclaimers Street Orchestra, who perform folk music on their unique instruments. Through community music making, the members of The Reclaimers are overcoming personal barriers, and finding new life.

Our mission: to make community music making more accessible to everyone around the world.

Latest News: Street Orchestra Looking for New Members

As you might be aware, we’ve applied to perform at the Woodford Folk Festival in December this year. However, now we have an agonising wait until August to find out whether our application has been approved. In the meantime,we’re gearing up to put on a big performance...

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Visit The Workshop

Check out some of the cheap and easy to build instruments that are being made at our Spring Hill Workshop. We build a variety of instruments that include: drums and percussion, 2-string stick-fiddles, 2-string ‘cellos’, 2-string ‘violas’, 6-string ‘Uncle Bob’ guitars, electric guitars, tin-whistles – you name it!

We can help you build a great sounding instrument from as little as $10(AU)!

Read about the personal experiences of others as they build their musical instruments.

Learn how to make your very own instrument!


Meet The Orchestra

*** NOW RECRUITING ***

The Reclaimers Street Orchestra is made up of regular participants at our workshops. Our members come from diverse backgrounds – but they all share a troubled past – each struggling with personal difficulties that range from emotional and anxiety problems, to homelessness and poverty. Yet through the power of music, together they are overcoming hardship and ‘reclaiming’ their lives.

Read about the personal experiences of our members, and how being a part of The Street Orchestra has changed their lives.

Discover how you can get involved with the Street Orchestra in Brisbane, or start your own at a place near you.





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    • Catch All May 24, 2010
      Here in the ‘Uncategorized’ section, you’ll find all the other posts that don’t fit nicely into the other categories. If you have some ideas about how to make a completely different type of instrument, or just something random to add to the conversation, then here is the category for you! […]
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    • Make an Electric Guitar Cheaply May 24, 2010
      If you get excited about electric guitars, then you might be surprised to know that you can make your very own, great sounding electric guitar for under $20 (AU). Yes! It is possible! Some participants at The Workshop have created an electric guitar made out of styrafoam! It’s based on an ingenious design developed by [...] […]
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    • Monday’s workshop August 3, 2010
      Monday was a busy morning in the workshop with the arrival of some new members and the return of some of the more regular members. I made a small amount of progress on the instrument I am working on and also had the opportunity to play some music with the orchestra in the afternoon. [...] […]
      Nicole
    • Happiness – Song Lyrics June 9, 2010
      A song written by Margaret on 18/3/2010 Happiness A song dancing in my head Saying always laugh instead In place of thoughts so blue They seem to make the world untrue Chorus: The sky when seen, a vivid blue Seems clouds floating watching you Makes you feel happiness abound Where everything turns right around. A thought, a smile, always gleaming Showering on […]
      Margaret



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Street Orchestra Looking for New Members

Posted on Jun 09 2010
As you might be aware, we’ve applied to perform at the Woodford Folk Festival in December this year. However, now we have an agonising wait until August to find out whether our application has been...

Thanks Johanna

Posted on May 09 2010
The Reclaimers workshop and orchestra are made possible by the efforts of many fine people working together to make more music in the world. The online stuff is expanding currently due to the efforts...


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