3d printed musical instruments
3D Printing News Briefs, June 17, 2023: Startup Accelerator, 3D Printed Violins, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start off with business, as Tritone’s new partnership brings it into the French market and Hexagon’s manufacturing startup accelerator has named three new…
3D Printing News Briefs, July 23, 2022: Metal 3D Printer, 3D Printed Electric Violin, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Kurtz Ersa is offering a new metal 3D printer, and SLM Solutions reported that a major European automotive OEM purchased two more of its…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: May 8th, 2022
We’ve got another busy week of webinars and events in the AM industry ahead of us, with topics covering 3D printed housing, robotics, the supply chain, multimaterial 3D printing, generative…
A 3D Printed Symphony of Violins Will Sound in Ottawa for 3D String Theory Concert
Several musicians and 3D printing enthusiasts have combined their love for both of those things by creating 3D printed musical instruments – and violins are some of the most common….
Music to Our Ears: Winner of Canada’s 3D Printed Musical Instrument Challenge Announced
We often hear stories of people who need 3D printed prosthetics and assistive devices to play their chosen instrument, be it the cello, the drums, or the piano. And as materials…
Guitars Getting in Tune with 3D Printing
Over the last few years, 3D printing has opened up a wide variety of possibilities for guitar manufacturing. Top manufacturers such as Fender have adopted 3D printing technologies as an…
UCLA Chapter of 3D4E to Provide 3D Printed Ukeleles for Disadvantaged Children
The inseparable nature of art and science is continually demonstrated through 3D printing, from the creation of sculptures in which an innate understanding of the material and process of 3D…
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…
Dassault Systèmes Gathered 3D Printing Expertise at CES 2018: Interviews with Rize, Syos
At last week’s eventful CES 2018 in Las Vegas, 3D printing may not have been the main attraction — but still had plenty to show. The annual trade show has…
3D Printing as Seen at CES 2018: Part Two
3D printing has long made a showing at the annual CES in Las Vegas, with announcements ahead of the show serving to get visitors and watchers-from-afar eager to learn more…
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…
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…
Autodesk Research Collaborates with Dartmouth College to Design and 3D Print Free-Form Wind Instruments
Like many junior high school students, I opted to choose an instrument to study and play in the school’s musical ensemble, or band, though I had a college professor who…
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!…
Check Out “Heavy Metal,” the First Guitar 3D Printed in Aluminum
Aluminum is the most commonly found metal on Earth, and after oxygen and silicon, it is the third most commonly found element. Because of its low density, resistance to corrosion…
Next Phase of Development Begins for The Hovalin, An Open Source 3D Printed Violin
The Hovalin, developed by Matt and Kaitlyn Hova, is a open source 3D printed violin that has received much attention since the first version was released. Now the next phase of development…
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…
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…
World’s Tiniest 3D Printed Orchestra is a Tour de Force
We’ve all heard that joke about the world’s smallest violin, right? Thanks to 3D printing, not only is there now really such a thing — along with the violinist that…
Rock Star of a Student 3D Prints His Own Electric Guitar
Some days, I still regret that I’m not a rock star. That’s a normal regret, right? When I was in college, I tried to learn how to play the guitar….
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…
Mixtrument: A 3D Printable ‘Mixable’ Wind Instrument Designed by a Nuclear Engineer
While 3D printing has been touted for its tremendous advantage over other manufacturing techniques, when it comes customization, not everyone is utilizing the technology to its fullest potential. Over 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…
