{"id":1774,"date":"2019-12-17T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T09:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:49:14","slug":"dec-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/dec-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 17. Printing musical instruments in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IT Innovation Challenges advent calendar 2019<\/p><\/div>\n

What would\u00a0the holiday season\u00a0be without some of our favourite Christmas songs?<\/p>\n

Today is all about music and we are excited to report that the GLAM project ‘Replicating Historical Musical Instruments<\/a>‘ is making fantastic progress.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Hughes, Deputy Head of Conservation, Pitt Rivers Museum, presenting one of the 3D printed\u00a0recorder at the GLAM Engaged Research Showcase in November 2019t here<\/p><\/div>\n

The project aims at recreating\u00a0historical instruments using 3D printing technology. A 17th century ivory recorder has been chosen for this project. The recorder is still playable,\u00a0 allowing for comparisons\u00a0between\u00a0the\u00a0original and the replicas.<\/p>\n

In November, the team had new prints of the mouthpieces and blocks made, so they now have\u00a0four\u00a0working accurate replicas that did not require any post-processing. On 27 November,\u00a0Andrew Hughes gave\u00a0a lightning talk at the GLAM Engaged Research Showcase at the Weston Library which included a performance of the original and all 5 replicas. The team is also working on a film which shows the printing process required to\u00a0produce\u00a0different replicas to help distribute the project’s findings.<\/p>\n

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The original 17th century recorder and the five 3D printed replicas produced by the project team.<\/p><\/div>\n

In early December, an assessment was carried out at the Bate Collection<\/a> by a professional recorder player to play the original and the replicas and provide feedback from the musician\u2019s perspective. The assessment was attended by an interdisciplinary team, including members of the Engineering Science team, Gabriele Ricchiardi (University of Turin), Mark Witkowski\u00a0(Imperial College London) and Olwen Foulkes, a recorder player and PhD student at the Royal Academy of Music. Further initial testing carried out by 4th<\/sup> year Engineering student\u00a0has\u00a0produced\u00a0some interesting findings, and all replicas are currently\u00a0undergoing acoustic testing in the engineering lab.<\/p>\n

We will have to wait a little longer to find out whether 3D prints are a viable alternative to original historical instruments, but the project has already produced many interesting findings\u00a0that you can read more about in the following articles:<\/p>\n