Making sweet music out of rubbish

Just two years ago, Lucas Cantero knew nothing about playing music.

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On Sunday evening, the 16-year-old Paraguayan played his drum-made from discarded pallet wood, X-ray panels and copper rods in the opulent setting of London's Lancaster House.

"I would never have imagined that music could come from bits of wood and old X-rays", admitted the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura member.

The young and highly unorthodox ensemble takes its name from the biggest landfill site in the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion.

Comprised of local residents disadvantaged from backgrounds, they make their instruments from paint cans, plumbing pipes, oil drums, shoe brushes and an array of other waste.

They have forged everything from violins to trumpets.