3D printing How to change the music industry? The violin hundred can print

As a new technology, 3D printing is affecting fashion, medicine, manufacturing and even the food industry. Now it is starting to dabble in new areas: music. The University of Longde in Sweden recently held a concert of 3D printing instruments, showcasing a variety of unique instruments made from 3D printers. Olaf Diegel, director of the SLS laser sintering process and ceramic powder materials, printed a large number of instruments, and even attracted the attention of professional musicians, hoping that he can produce these 3D printing instruments.

In fact, Olaf Diegel is not the only person involved in the printing of musical instruments, the musician, Openfab PDX founder David Perry, is one of the pioneers, after retiring, he found that 3D printer can help him complete the complex instrument production, Thus founded the company and F-f-fiddle Open source electronic violin printing platform.

Generally speaking, the advantage of 3D printing is cost, which is also applicable to instrument printing. With a cost of just 30 dollars (about 184 yuan), you can print a violin with a sound quality comparable to thousands of dollars. But what's even cooler is that 3D printing makes some unique design concepts more likely to become a reality. Musical instruments, after all, is a physical device, some bands need more personalized, iconic special instruments, whether it is bass drums or guitar, bass, 3D printing can be easily satisfied. In addition, the differences in physical structure tend to make traditional instruments have different effects, such as a twisted trumpet, if the use of traditional process manufacturing, even if the feasible cost is extremely high, but 3D printing can be easily achieved.

Of course, the limitations of the current 3D printing technology, the use of wood, copper and other traditional instruments of the material, this is a problem to be solved. But to be sure, musical instrument manufacturers are beginning to actively contact 3D printing technology, starting from the mold to change the traditional instrument production process, which is already a progress. Perhaps one day, all sorts of odd art modelling, can emit the non-traditional wonderful sound the 3D printing instrument, will appear in each kind of concert, the music profession will usher in after the digitization another major innovation.

(Responsible editor: Lvguang)