Rubber Band Guitar

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.

Rubber band guitar.

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. Wrap four large rubber bands around the box lengthwise. Stretch the rubber band around the tissue box so it goes across. Position the rubber bands so that they are right over the tissue hole.

It s a little annoying if one person has to hold the rubber band all the time. 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. 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. Sounds travel better through solids like your finger than through gases like the air.

In our rubber band bass guitar the vibrations travel through your finger to your ear. Stretch each string across the central guitar hole and into the corresponding string hole on the other side. Place the knotted dowel into the body of the guitar and feed the rubber bands up through the string holes. Since the vibration causes the sound when the vibration stops the rubber band stops moving the sound also stops.

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. Give a kid something new and he ll spend hours exploring the same. In the following article we will take you through the ways in which this can be done. Try to use thick and thin rubber bands.

To make this easier each group can build a rubber band guitar shown in figure 2.