Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

dstone · 2011-01-06 03:56:15

Model, print, and blow. If you like the plastic/math/model/perfection/experimentation side of bores and holes, noodle on this:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/01/a … s-to-come/

Printed flute == awesome? Doubtful. But the trend is clear... give it 10 years and 3D printers will be in a lot of homes. Maybe sufficient scanning technology also. Ethical, economic, and artistic dilemmas? "Hey can you email me a copy of that 1.8 Yamaguchi Shiro you've got? Thanks, dude." :-O

Archive your favorite flutes in case they are damaged or stolen.
Take a copy of your delicate flute camping!

Ugly. But interesting.

Mujitsu · 2011-01-06 10:53:19

dstone wrote:
Printed flute == awesome? Doubtful. But the trend is clear... give it 10 years and 3D printers will be in a lot of homes.

Gorgeous! Except those damn moving parts.

I liked the trumpet/clarinet thing pictured at the end.

These inevitable approaches are exciting. If not viewed as an end all solution they don't
threaten but rather compliment a handmade, tinkering approach. Economics
may be another thing. Or not.

So much to learn from doing things another way. The other side of the coin is your friend.

dstone · 2011-01-06 16:22:31

Yup, the moving parts (irrelevant to shakuhachi) were clearly the weakest part of that experiment.

And if the plastic turns you off... There are 3D printers that can work in glass, sand, ceramic, clay, metals, etc. Hmm...

Itamar Foguel · 2011-01-09 07:04:56

interesting, i used a 3d printer to print a bore mandrel for bore casting. the main problem with that technology right now is that its very costly.

now days, if you gonna print a good flute in STL it will probably cost more then the original (yes im talking about few thousand dollars)

but the technology is great!, i remember people talking about a printer printing another printer

http://www.objet.com/

and one more

http://replicatorinc.com/blog/2009/10/3 … mple-part/

dstone · 2011-01-10 21:20:51

Pricey, yes. One of the cheaper ways to get into 3D printing is the Thing-o-Matic. In kit form, it's $1,250 and can position to within a thousandth of an inch. This doesn't necessarily mean it is good enough to maintain a bore profile, but mayyybe... Oh, and it's limited to printing objects 4" long so we might be talking about a 6-piece hassun. Still, a cool space to watch.

Karmajampa · 2011-01-11 00:53:36

Anybody got a template for Yamaguchi Goro's embouchure and throat ?

K.

Jim Thompson · 2011-01-11 10:50:45

Karmajampa wrote:
Anybody got a template for Yamaguchi Goro's embouchure and throat ?

K.

Ha ha! Very funny Karmajampa. Alas, I'm afraid science will fail us on this one. We may have to do it the old way.

Moran from Planet X · 2011-01-11 12:23:58

Jim Thompson wrote:
Alas, I'm afraid science will fail us on this one. We may have to do it the old way.

What? exhume and autopsy?

Jim Thompson · 2011-01-11 13:05:58

Last time I checked, autopsy was a science. It won't help us here. In some cases, groping in the dark and relying only on what you can feel is best way. In think this is one of them.

Moran from Planet X · 2011-01-11 17:53:45

Jim Thompson wrote:
Last time I checked, autopsy was a science.

Ah, yes.

My bad.

dstone · 2011-01-11 23:17:06

Karmajampa wrote:
Anybody got a template for Yamaguchi Goro's embouchure and throat ?

Yeah, I found it online. Disappointing, really. Mostly empty.

Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

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