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Are you trying to create an object with one mouthpiece and twice as many holes? I think I understand what you want to happen.. one mouth but two unique sounds? But this is a musical instrument.. if you want it to be playable and not sound like shit, you're asking an extremely complicated task of internet strangers. It would be like asking a stranger to make a brand new musical instrument nearly from scratch
Could also mean two separate ocarinas connected only at the mouthpiece, like with a double flute. If you're starting with an existing ocarina 3d model, this should actually be pretty trivial.
Yeah this. Thanks
Yeah that seems very doable
Thanks I thought so. At least to make the model. Idk about getting to actually sound good. That’s gonna take some trial and error.
Presumably you have a printer? I'm quite certain you can find a working ocarina on thingiverse. From that point I'd wager most of your sound quality is going to come from your printer settings, smoother is better.
If you're getting into 3d printing I'd suggest at least a little practice with modeling, and this seems like an excellent opportunity.
Find an ocarina model if you don't have one (I recommend searching Thingiverse, I'm sure you can find a dozen functional models). It sounds like you're trying to finger each one with one hand so you can play both together, so you'll want a model designed to be fingered with one hand.
Pint it out a couple times tweaking the settings until the sound is acceptable. Then, import that model into TinkerCAD, it's a very beginner-friendly browser-based modeling application.
Duplicate the model, mirror it, and then rotate and move it until they're arranged as if you were holding one in each hand separately with the fipples in your mouth with some gap between the bodies. Then, create two symmetrical block shaped "holes" just barely cutting into each fipple. Merge each hole with its corresponding object, cutting out two small pieces, which should allow you to slide the models together until the fipples touch along that slice. Merge the objects, print and test.
I’ll check out TikerCAD, thanks!
hey hey. tinkercad is cool cuz it has lots of prebuilt shapes. do you know if/how i can move the holes around on the ocarina in tinkercad?
TinkerCAD basically works by generating objects and object-shaped holes that you can merge to create the final design. If you had designed the ocarina from scratch in TinkerCAD, you could move the object-shaped holes around before merging.
Since you're importing the model, TinkerCAD treats it as one pre built shape. The best you can do is generate new objects to fill the holes, and generate new holes that you can put where you want. However, since this is a musical instrument, moving the holes can change the effect they have on pitch.
I found at least one ocarina model designed to be played with one hand, with appropriate hole placement. I'd recommend starting with that, rather than moving the holes yourself. Unless of course you know enough about ocarina design to keep the thing tuned properly, in which case just fill the holes and generate new ones.
Looking to take an existing ocarina STL, duplicating it and sticking next to the other like a mirror image, then having a single mouthpiece that sends air to both bodies.