|| 3D Printing of Experimental Acoustic Musical Instruments with Proprietary Wood Mimic Material and Continuous Fiber Placement - Daxophone Tongue 1st Print || This video illustrates my first print test of a "tongue" for an acoustic musical instrument named "Daxophone", invented by Heins Reichel in 1987. This tongue is intented to replace the standard wooden tongues made by Daxophone makers. After the encouragement of Mr. Kriton Beyer, a contemporary Daxophone player and member of Berlin's experimental audiovisual artists' music stage, I have designed and developed a material for Daxophone players. As Kriton experiments on the boundaries of music making and acoustic sound production, he asked for a material that vibrates like wood but is more resistant to breakage and wear. With each of the wooden tongue's acoustic character/note being unique, during performance strong bending forces are placed upon them and so they have the tendency to break easily- therefore they cannot be repaired or replaced. This is a big obstacle for all Daxophone players. Within the framework of Additive Manufacturing, a porous structure polymer is developed that mimics the internal microstructure of Tonewood- one which also changes porosity during or after printing via a 4D printing stimulus, emulating density variance of real wood pieces. Furthermore, continuous fibers are placed inside the printed object during printing, in an attempt to further mimic a real wood's structure. The end-result of the printed piece is quite similar in its vibrational characteristics to actual vibrating wood. This is just the first baby step towards state-of-the-art acoustic 3D printed instruments that could actually outperform wooden ones. The printed Daxophone tongue will soon be tested side by side to its wooden twin, by renowned Daxophone player Kriton Beyer. So more videos coming soon. Made possible by Harris Matzaridis of ViolinoDigitale. PS: Wooden Daxophone can be heard at the link below: https://lnkd.in/dETgxbGn #acoustic #3d #printing #tonewood #musical #instrument #additive #manufacturing #continuous #fibers #daxophone #tongue #vibration #natural #porous #wood #mimic #biomimicry #audio