A Simple Cigarbox Harp

I was at a show the other night and got to talking to an elementary school art teacher there. She was interested in how she might apply what I was doing with instrument building to a project for her class.



So, I suggested wrapping 5 rubber bands around a cardboard cigarbox and sliding a pencil under them for a bridge. Putting the pencil at an angle gives each rubber band "string" a different pitch.

My original plan called for two pencil bridges, but when I sat down to actually build a proof-of-concept model, it turned out that only one was needed.

And it sounds pretty good: Click here to hear it.