The next time you hear Bartok’s famous “Violin Concerto No. 2,” it might be performed on a plastic instrument the musician fabricated at home on a 3-D printer.

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Far-fetched? The reality is here. For about $10 in materials — not counting the strings, tuners, and bow — local electrical engineer and music lover Nick Samson was able to print a playable, and beautifully blue, violin.

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He hasn’t been using his 3-D printer that long. This spring, he was researching to find a 3-D printer related to his work as an electrical engineer at NRI Electronics in Rochester and ended up purchasing one for his personal use at home as well. “The first print I did was a little octopus with articulated legs, to test the printer out,” he said. “Mostly though it […]

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