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3D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 07 2015, @04:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the They-still-sound-like-nails-on-a-chalkboard dept.

"exec" writes:

3D-printed flutes hit new notes | Researchers have found a way to 3D print instruments that produce notes unattainable through traditional instruments.

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/world-of-tech/3d-printed-flutes-hit-new-notes-1298519?src=rss&attr=all

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 Tuesday July 07 2015, @07:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @07:47PM (#206204)

    Flute virtuoso collected hard-to-get reeds and made flutes from them so that he got a range of tone qualities.
    January 2014, he's flying through JFK and US Customs finds them in his baggage, calls them agricultural products, and destroys them.
    Professional's handmade flutes destroyed by US.gov [classicfm.com]

    Aren't gov't functionaries who could barely make it out of high school just the most fun?

    -- gewg_

  • (Score: 2) by darnkitten on Tuesday July 07 2015, @08:14PM

    by darnkitten (1912) on Tuesday July 07 2015, @08:14PM (#206210)

    Science Friday recently had a story where an aquarium had to declare a live squid as sushi to get it through customs...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @10:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @10:12PM (#206244)

    this must be one of the imposter gewg_s because the real gewg_ would never blame the US gov; it's always those greedy capitalist pigs' fault

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @10:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @10:39PM (#206256)

      plutocracy [google.com]

      -- gewg_

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @01:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @01:29AM (#206299)

    Last paragraph from the link

    The musician has lost 11 ney and two kawalas flutes. A ney is a reed flute with six finger-holes in front and a thumb-hole, and the kawala is a cane flute - both are commonly used in Arabic music.

    There's the problem.