Joanna Wronko: I will play for you one short piece, half of it I will play
on the 3D-printed violin and then I'll switch to the normal one
so in close proximity you can see the difference in sound.
(Playing the violin)
(Applause)
Jim Stolze: Thank you Joanna.
I was pretty close, I was pretty nearby so I could hear
the difference also in volume, I think you call that the projection.
JW: Yeah, it's actually, it's both. There are two different things,
I mean one of the obvious things is that the 3D printed violin
just sounds less, it's quieter in sound.
JS: Right.
JW: But it also doesn't really project, right now we have mic's.
We have also a lot of extra noise but normally the hall is used
for a classical music concert and it's very beautiful
for its acoustics.
JS: Normally, if you were playing the violin, it wouldn't mic-ed
it wouldn't be all these speakers it would just be the violin.
And then there's something you couldn't do right now.
You couldn't reach the people in the back, right?
JW: We didn't really try it, it's an experiment
but I assumed it wouldn't...
JS: I'm all for experiment. Could we kill the microphone,
That doesn't sound very nice.
Could you shut the volume of Joanna's microphone?
And then just listen to the plain sound of the violin.
JW: OK
JS: Could you say something?
JW: No.
JS: Alright.
(Playing the violin)
JS: And now on the acoustic.
(Playing the violin)
JS: I see people in the back going: "Ah, thank you."
(Applause)
JS: One other thing that I noticed
when you played the traditional violin,
your whole body posture changed, you became one.
Is it your own instrument?
JW: Well, it doesn't belong to me but I played for eight years now.
JS: It's yours, alright.
JW: Yeah it's my baby.
JS: And that didn't happen with the 3D violin,
is it possible that you become one with this instrument?
JW: Wow, that's a big question.
I think, one very practical thing is that it's much
heavier than the normal violin
so I can't imagine to play the whole long concert
on it as I can do on a normal violin.
But, I mean it's an incredible thing that actually plays.
I can't really believe it.
It sounds like a violin actually, but it's missing a certain vibration.
A special thing about every wooden violin is that every one is one of a kind
because it's hand made, so every single instrument has
spots and notes which are a little bit weaker
a little bit stronger, so as a musician when you get
to know the instrument, you just look for the spot.
JS: Each instrument has its character
and each 3D product will be the same as the other.
Is there something especially
that you could do with this violin that you couldn't do with the wooden?
OK it's obvious.
JW: I don't know.
I was actually talking to a friend today and she asked a similar question.
What it would be good for.
She made actually a point that I didn't think about before,
that maybe it could be used for a non classical thing
for a studio thing.
When it's actually amplified, because it is so equal
that you could probably modify the sound much more
than the sound of a natural violin.
But in the classical world, I would say no.
JS: Right.
So the Ukulélé's like 10 euros, and then we have the poor man Stradivarius.
JW: Yeah.
JS: Time's up. So could you please just one encore on the 3D violin
and then a short piece on the wooden violin?
JW: Yes, I would play a short piece, Polish Capriccio,
which will show you a slow opening
and which will show what the violin can do.
Although, you can't really print imperfection on the violin,
which the imperfection is what gives the violin beauty to music for me,
it's still quite astonishing.
(Playing the violin)
(Applause)