LUXOR, Egypt — For 7-year-old Mohammed Taha, music can easily flow out of an empty Pepsi bottle or a curtain rail.
Taha is a garbage collector who walks from bin to bin. About a year ago, he met Shady Rabab, a musician and activist who thought that once you understood the principles of making pleasant sounds, music could come out of anything, even dismissed materials from garbage bins. He also went a step further, teaching garbage collectors — a job mostly held by Egyptian children — to make their own musical instruments and play them.