3d printed musical instrument
3D Printing, Generative Design, & CNC Harmonize to Make Electric Violin
It’s true, 3D printing and generative design can make beautiful music together…just look at the electric violin recently created by Autodesk and luthier (violin maker) Kevin Baslé! Electric violins, while…
Reverse-Engineering Vintage Sax Sound with 3D Printed Mouthpiece Replicas
I’ve mentioned before that I’m something of a very amateur, volunteer musician, so I’m always excited to hear about 3D printing applications related to making music. Mechanical engineer Matthew Busch,…
Is this 3D Printed Alto Saxophone on Kickstarter Viable?
I’ve been playing music in some form or fashion since I was in the first grade, from singing and ringing handbells in various church choirs, taking piano lessons, and playing…
Olaf Diegel’s Latest 3D Printed Guitar, the Xenomorph
“Here’s lookin’ at you, kid.” “Hasta la vista, baby.” “Life is like a box of chocolates.” “Game over, man, game over!” These are all memorable lines from iconic films, though…
Collaborators at UT Austin’s Foundry Create Beautiful Music Together with 3D Printed Six-String Violin
John Adams is one of the greatest composers living today and, as such, his music pushes boundaries and offers challenges to both those who play and it and those who…
3D Printed Violin Marries Digital Technology with Classic Crafting Techniques
Full disclosure – while I have 3D printed many small items, I’ve never attempted anything very large or composed of many pieces. Part of that is because I haven’t worked…
BigRep Hits South by Southwest 2017 With Their Big 3D Printers and Some Big Design Ideas
Every year musicians, filmmakers and tech companies flock to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest (SXSW), a loosely affiliated group of festivals and conferences that consist of ten days of…
Cimquest 3D Prints Colorful, Blue Man Group-Inspired Tubulum
If you’ve ever watched the Blue Man Group perform, you may have wondered about the series of tubes they strike to create percussive yet melodic notes. It’s called a tubulum, and it’s in…
In the Mood for Some Music? Check Out This 3D Printed Formlabs Violin & New Rhett Price Video!
While we have had our great writers, painters, and a multitude of famous artists throughout history to inspire and allow us to appreciate so many mediums, sometimes it seems nothing…
Laurent Bernadac is Rocking the 3D Printer & Kickstarter with 3Dvarius, Also Known as ‘Pauline’
The 3Dvarius has indeed just been launched on Kickstarter—but if you need a major kickstart to your morning, afternoon, or eve, just sneak a watch at the video below. Wow!…
The Ultimaker 2 Goes On Quite the Adventure—Making a Perfect 3D Printed Trumpet in Transit
Musicians are a picky, picky group when it comes to their instruments. And indeed they like to make innumerable changes and customizations to pickups, pegs, bows, strings, valves, mouthpieces, and…
Open Source Hovalin Violin is 3D Printed in Wood PLA with More Upgrades to Come!
It wasn’t too long ago that we reported here on a husband and wife team that added to the growing list of 3D printed musical instruments with their own contribution:…
Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Things – Guitars and String Instruments
January 2016 has been an especially bloody month in terms of celebrity deaths, and it may go down in history as having the highest famous person body count ever. Nerds…
Husband and Wife Team Up to Create Hovalin, the Open Source 3D Printed Violin
One of the many advantages of inventing something is that you get to name it. Even better if your name and the thing you have created have some sort of…
Making New Music with 3D Printed Metallophone Instruments
I am a university professor, and I have been guilty of this myself. Taking a subject which is actually a great deal of fun to explore and then, in the…
Taiwan’s ITRI Showcases Metal 3D Printed Saxophone
Guitars. Violins — both acoustic and electric. Cellos. Drum sets and Indian tabla drum pairs. The saxophone… 3D printing musical instruments is becoming more common, but it is not necessarily an easy…
3D Printed Pickup Cartridges May Change the Way We Play Guitar
With an ever expanding range of advanced 3D printing materials capable of a wide range of applications becoming available in the past year, FDM 3D printing is undergoing a bit…
MONAD Studio Adds Hornucopian Dronepipe to Sonic Installation “Multi”
MONAD Studio, founded in 2002 by Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalcberg, is an architecture firm with a particular interest in exploring the relationships between spatial perception and rhythmic effect. Back…
Russia’s Unique-3D Creates A 3D Printed Acoustic Violin
I am a big string instrument fan — including the violin, viola, and cello — with the violin being my favorite. And the violin has traveled quite a long way to get…
Ancient Chi Transverse Flute Gets 3D Printed Reincarnation
If you had been living the high life near the Marquis Yi of Zeng in 433 BC, you might have been lucky enough to hear a performance on the Chi (篪),…
Tangible Instruments Introduces 3D Printed Arpeggiator
Sometimes, the best ideas are those that have time to ripen and develop over time, like a fine wine. Sure the ‘Eureka’ type of vision is flashier and makes better cinema,…