Playing music is a common way to deal with the winter blues, and a rubber band guitar is a classic rubber-based household project. Just take a shoebox and stretch a few bands tightly around to get ...

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.

The key is that the middle of the stretched rubber band just moves up and down, like the high and low points on our repeating wave from before. But you can make other standing waves that are a ...

In the middle is a fretless rubber band neck with a capo. And the final section before the headstock is a low-tuned rubber band guitar, as Bernth demonstrates.

A tissue box guitar is great fun for your little rock star! Try making one with a kitchen roll tube neck and rubber band strings. When you pluck the strings with your toddler, say words like 'pull ...