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by moocowduckquack 4621 days ago
I would love to see a 3-d printer friend explain to me how it's going to build a guitar from scratch.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-worlds-first-3d-printed-guitar

edit - and a video of a 3d printed violin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU3AZmf6O7I

1 comments

Very cool! Still, I doubt that plastic violins will win the hearts of musicians. They look different; they play differently. I won't guess if that sounded good or not; I've got a tin ear. But is sounded different. Calling it a 'stradivarius' was disengeneous. Its a plastic box that looks like a violin.

I think that 3D printing will win when it starts making things that couldn't be made before. How about an instrument with complex echo chambers impossible to reproduce with wood and glue?