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on Tuesday July 07 2015, @04:28PM
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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.
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(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday July 07 2015, @08:16PM
notes unattainable through traditional instruments.
Traditional only in the sense that they are tuned to the traditional scales. You could - if you so wished - construct a flute in the traditional manner that hit these "new" notes.
In short, 3D printing is not achieving anything that couldn't be achieved any other way.
unique microtonal notes smaller than a semitone.
A semitone is a gap between notes. A note doesn't have "size."
Incidentally, although these might technically be flutes, I think most people would call them recorders.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @01:25AM
and Hipster Approved.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 08 2015, @07:38AM
> Traditional only in the sense that they are tuned to the traditional scales.
And "traditional scales" only in the sense that they are the *modern* scales that western musical cultures have agreed upon for most instruments in order to minimise the worst wolf tones no matter what key is played in.
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