March 25, 2017
Description
Way back in March of 2014, Lulzbot sponsored a 3d printed musical instrument contest in Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1zceg7/lulzbot_march_3d_printing_challenge_make_some/) . For that contest I created this trombone, which at the time was the first 3d printed trombone on the planet. It used to be hosted on the now defunct site Bld3r (Old link http://www.bld3r.com/obj/5848589574078464 - does not go anywhere now) . There are certainly better looking and more functional variants available now, but here is the first one for historical / hysterical purposes.
A video of me playing it. Badly. (most of that is me out of practice, not the trombone's fault. )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO9q6boe0AY
Trombone!
The Trombone! project is an attempt to create a fully operational, full size, playable trombone using pieces printed on a standard sized 3D printer, using as many 3d printed parts as are feasible. With the exception of the slides and the backbone, all the green parts in the picture are 3D printed, may be printed without support, and can be printed on a 200mm x 200m x 160mm Lulzbot Ao-100 or equivalent printer. This trombone was created to ensure that band members in sub artic locations can safely play their instruments outdoors without fear of having a trombone permanently stuck to their face. Also there might have been something about a Lulzbot sponsored March 3D printing challenge contest in the reddit /r/3dprinting 3DPrinting forum.
Happy Tromboning!
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Creative Commons - Attribution
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