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LI Vegetable Orchestra's tasteful music

Originally published: March 25, 2011 5:45 PM
Updated: March 25, 2011 6:09 PM
By BETH WHITEHOUSE  beth.whitehouse@newsday.com

Photo credit: Photo by Chris Ware | Dale Stuckenbruck, adjutant professor at C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, recently created the Long Island vegetable orchestra. (March 24, 2011)

Ask music teacher Dale Stuckenbruck his favorite instrument, and it's quite possible he'll say "the eggplants." Rub two together and they make a squeaking sound like sneakers on a gymnasium floor, or a monkey chanting "ooh ooh ooh."

A close second might be the carrot. Carve it into a recorder-like instrument and it carries a flutelike melody. Then there's the watermelon. Hollow it out and...