3D-printed flutes hit new notes | Researchers have found a way to 3D print instruments that produce notes unattainable through traditional instruments.
Hand-crafted instruments are all well and good, but the precision of 3D printing is starting to unlock new sounds.
Leading a team of researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia, Dr Terumi Narushima took the existing mathematical models used to determine how various notes are produced by wind instruments, and created a 3D model of a flute that – due to its customised diameter, length, and hole placement – produced unique microtonal notes smaller than a semitone.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Tuesday July 07 2015, @08:14PM
Science Friday recently had a story where an aquarium had to declare a live squid as sushi to get it through customs...
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Tuesday July 07 2015, @08:27PM
That would be really fresh sushi!
Hmmm...probably hard to swallow, with all those suckers on all those tentacles...I'll pass....
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Tuesday July 07 2015, @09:29PM