Comment Re:Interested in 3D printer for music (Score 4, Interesting) 266
Wow, this is an excellent idea for a very limited, very niche application.
As a physicist and a (very out of practice) trombone player, this is a niche I can get behind!
If you don't have designs already (or they're just along the lines of "what if..."), you should definitely find someone who knows something about acoustics to collaborate with. That's the kind of thing I would have done for fun in grad school.
For 3D printing, you may want to find someone who can help you out commercially. I used the UPS store for some very high resolution prototype parts for a medical device. I can't speak for all the UPS stores, but the one I went to had a guy who was very experienced with 3D printing. He did some minor tweaking of my files (I generally design for CNC, evidently designing for 3D printing is a little different). He also knew all the high-end 3D printing services in town, and was able to contract with one of them when his in-store printer was insufficient for what I needed.
In my case, I wanted to get my parts made, I didn't want a hands-on tutorial about 3D printing. So this all worked very well.