To make a rubber band guitar you ll need a tissue box 4 rubber bands scissors a paper towel tube tape glue popsicle sticks or straws and paint or stickers for decorating.
Rubber band guitar strings.
Every one of them will sound different.
All about building cool string instruments with rubber bands.
If your rubber bands are long enough you can stretch them all the way up the neck.
Pick the one that makes the best melody and play it.
The sound made by your instrument was the sound created by the rubber band vibrating when you plucked it much like how a real guitar string vibrates when played by a musician.
Making a guitar using rubber bands is a fairly simple exercise that is definitely not rocket science.
These concepts all apply to real guitars and other instruments as well.
By carefully manipulating these variables for example using rubber bands that are all the same length but different thickness you can create a rubber band guitar with multiple strings that each have a different pitch.
And two it can be turned into a crafts project that you can sit with your kids and carry through together.
For one it does not require very high end products to make and it can be easily brought through with simple things that are usually found around the house.
You now have a working guitar model.