Ok...very simple but this is something I will try this weekend
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Acoustic Guitar Rubber Band Muting
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tonebender
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Interesting and of course I will retrieve a rubber band from the junk drawer and try it out later today.
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toomanycats
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I suppose it was inevitable that this thread drifted into that subject. There is much debate whether Brazilian or East Indian Hevea Brasiliensis produces the best tone rubber.
Now that I think about it, my very first "guitar" had rubber band strings. It was back when I was in the Cub Scouts, or possibly the Webelos. I don't remember exactly, though I'm sure it was before I ate my first Brownie and became a Boy Scout. Anyways, there was a merit badge that required that one construct a musical instrument. I used an Aunt's Rickenbacker copy to trace the shape of a guitar body onto plywood. The neck was a 2x4. The "strings" were rubber bands attacked by nails at both ends. Of course it was just an art object and totally non functional as a musical instrument, though I still got the badge just for the effort. Ah, simpler times.
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