Schumpeter | Additive manufacturing

Printed rock

A music lesson on the future of 3D printing

By P.M. | FRANKFURT

AS BLACK SABBATH was giving German rockers a blast from the past in Frankfurt last week, another band was setting up in one of the giant halls of the city’s exhibition centre. This band (pictured), however, had never touched their instruments before. This is because they had been made only days earlier with the help of three-dimensional (3D) printers.

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