Rubber Band Guitar

Try to use thick and thin rubber bands.

Rubber band guitar.

The dowel will hold the rubber bands securely in place. Stretch each string across the central guitar hole and into the corresponding string hole on the other side. In the following article we will take you through the ways in which this can be done. Stretch the rubber band around the tissue box so it goes across.

This is because the molecules in a solid are so much closer together than in a gas so it is easier for the vibrations to be passed along. Place the knotted dowel into the body of the guitar and feed the rubber bands up through the string holes. Give a kid something new and he ll spend hours exploring the same. The thinner strings on your rubber band guitar are the same they vibrate more quickly and we perceive these vibrations as a higher pitched sound.

Position the rubber bands so that they are right over the tissue hole. You want to end up with two rubber bands on the left side of the tube and two rubber bands on the right side of the tube. Wrap four large rubber bands around the box lengthwise. Sounds travel better through solids like your finger than through gases like the air.

Since the vibration causes the sound when the vibration stops the rubber band stops moving the sound also stops. To make this easier each group can build a rubber band guitar shown in figure 2. In our rubber band bass guitar the vibrations travel through your finger to your ear. The thinner the rubber band the tighter it is stretched and the shorter the length of the vibrating section the higher the pitch will be.

Making a rubber band guitar is a fairly simple task and something that will provide for a lot of entertainment for the kids.