3D printing of custom musical instruments for heritage and industry needs

该项目将探索定制乐器的3D建模和打印的创新遗产和商业应用，以推进澳大利亚的柔性制造业。乐器是一种复杂的设备，通常由多个部件和/或材料制成，通常通过多种制造工艺来产生声音，以满足高性能的要求。当手工制作时，它们可以呈现出相当大的形态变化，即使是在单一的乐器类型中。该项目的新挑战是灵活制造定制乐器，以满足终端用户的多样化需求，这将为澳大利亚研究终端用户创造新的数字遗产战略和市场机会。

This Project will explore innovative heritage and commercial applications for the 3D modelling and printing of custom musical instruments to advance Australia’s flexible-manufacturing industry. Musical instruments are complex devices, often made with multiple parts and/or materials, that are commonly built to produce sound through a multitude of manufacturing processes to meet high-performance requirements. When hand-crafted, they can present considerable morphological variations, even within a single instrument type. The Project’s novel challenge of flexibly manufacturing custom music instruments to meet a diversity of end-user needs will create new digital heritage strategies and market opportunities for Australian research end-users.