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Joanna Wronko: I will play for you
one short piece, half of it I will play

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on the 3D-printed violin 
and then I'll switch to the normal one

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so in close proximity
you can see the difference in sound.

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(Playing the violin)

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(Applause)

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Jim Stolze: Thank you Joanna.

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I was pretty close, I was pretty nearby
so I could hear

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the difference also in volume, 
I think you call that the projection.

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JW: Yeah, it's actually, it's both. 
There are two different things,

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I mean one of the obvious things 
is that the 3D printed violin

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just sounds less, it's quieter in sound.

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JS: Right.

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JW: But it also doesn't really project, 
right now we have mic's.

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We have also a lot of extra noise 
but normally the hall is used

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for a classical music concert 
and it's very beautiful

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for its acoustics.

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JS: Normally, if you were playing
the violin, it wouldn't mic-ed

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it wouldn't be all these speakers
it would just be the violin.

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And then there's something
you couldn't do right now.

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You couldn't reach the people 
in the back, right?

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JW: We didn't really try it, 
it's an experiment

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but I assumed it wouldn't...

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JS: I'm all for experiment. 
Could we kill the microphone,

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That doesn't sound very nice.

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Could you shut the volume
of Joanna's microphone?

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And then just listen to 
the plain sound of the violin.

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JW: OK

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JS: Could you say something?

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JW: No.

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JS: Alright.

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(Playing the violin)

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JS: And now on the acoustic.

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(Playing the violin)

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JS: I see people in the back 
going: "Ah, thank you."

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(Applause)

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JS: One other thing that I noticed

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when you played the traditional violin,

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your whole body posture changed,
you became one.

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Is it your own instrument?

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JW: Well, it doesn't belong to me
but I played for eight years now.

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JS: It's yours, alright.

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JW: Yeah it's my baby.

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JS: And that didn't happen 
with the 3D violin,

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is it possible that you
become one with this instrument?

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JW: Wow, that's a big question.

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I think, one very practical 
thing is that it's much

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heavier than the normal violin

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so I can't imagine to play 
the whole long concert

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on it as I can do on a normal violin.

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But, I mean it's an incredible thing 
that actually plays.

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I can't really believe it.

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It sounds like a violin actually, 
but it's missing a certain vibration.

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A special thing about every wooden violin
is that every one is one of a kind

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because it's hand made, 
so every single instrument has


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spots and notes which are 
a little bit weaker

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a little bit stronger,
so as a musician when you get

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to know the instrument, 
you just look for the spot.

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JS: Each instrument has its character

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and each 3D product 
will be the same as the other.

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Is there something especially

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that you could do with this violin 
that you couldn't do with the wooden?

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OK it's obvious.

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JW: I don't know.

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I was actually talking to a friend today
and she asked a similar question.

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What it would be good for.

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She made actually a point 
that I didn't think about before,

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that maybe it could be used 
for a non classical thing

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for a studio thing.

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When it's actually amplified, 
because it is so equal

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that you could probably 
modify the sound much more

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than the sound of a natural violin.

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But in the classical world, 
I would say no.

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JS: Right.

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So the Ukulélé's like 10 euros, and then 
we have the poor man Stradivarius.

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JW: Yeah.

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JS: Time's up. So could you please
just one encore on the 3D violin

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and then a short piece 
on the wooden violin?

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JW: Yes, I would play a short piece,
Polish Capriccio,

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which will show you a slow opening

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and which will show 
what the violin can do.

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Although, you can't really print 
imperfection on the violin,

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which the imperfection is what gives
the violin beauty to music for me,

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it's still quite astonishing.

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(Playing the violin)

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(Applause)