Rubber Band Guitar Strings

All about building cool string instruments with rubber bands.

Rubber band guitar strings.

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. Use six strings and tune them exactly like a guitar. You now have a working guitar model. Pick the one that makes the best melody and play it.

The paper towel roll will become the neck of the guitar which you can tape or hot glue to the tissue box. 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. These concepts all apply to real guitars and other instruments as well.

The btt instrument building lab is a series of instructional videos that will show you how to b. 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. Every one of them will sound different.