How to Make a One-Stringed Homemade Guitar
One-stringed homemade guitars are an interesting way to learn about sound waves, pitches and intervals. These guitars can be made out of anything that can allow a string to vibrate, producing a sound in a hollow chamber. Any box or milk carton and a few rubber bands can get you started making your own one-stringed guitar.
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Things You'll Need
- Plastic milk carton
- Guitar string
- Rubber bands
- 2 plastic push pins
- 1-foot long ruler
- Stick of modeling clay
Instructions
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Wrap rubber bands around the ruler at 2-inch intervals. The intervals must be precise or the pitch of the guitar string will not change when it is plucked.
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Cut out a 4- to 5-inch diameter hole out of the widest side of the plastic milk carton. Push a plastic push pin into the milk carton just to the right side of the hole.
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Wedge the ruler into the mouth of the milk carton. Stop up the remainder of the mouth with a generous piece of clay.
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Put a push pin into the short outside edge of the ruler farthest away from the guitar body. Wind the guitar string around each push pin until it is taught.
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Try the guitar by pressing the guitar string against the ruler in the space between two rubber bands and plucking it.
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