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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @02:33AM
Modern wind instruments such as trumpets, cornets, French horns, baritone horns, trombones, etc. are manufactured in relation to the "just temperament" system, NOT the equal temperament system. This is why they have slides and need to adjust their slides according to the key they are playing in (if they want to sound in tune). The piano is usually manufactured using equal temperament. The harpsichord also uses just temperament.
(Score: 2) by TGV on Wednesday July 08 2015, @06:22AM
Pianos and harpsichords can and have to be tuned. Their pitches are far from constant.