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Video: Farmer makes music with creativity

Dou Ming enjoys a special creative talent and has transformed tobacco pipes, used toothpaste tubes, syringes, table tennis balls and eggshells into musical instruments. Dou, a 48-year-old farmer from Jilin province, has loved music and instruments since childhood and has taught himself how to play the flute and erhu. The only requirement for the transformed objects is that they have holes. So far, he has made around 20 instruments from various items that would normally be discarded.

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