Clockwise from top left: Cast of my lips, First wax prototype, 3D-printed prototypes, Pre-release prototype next to a quarter, My lips in the act of whistling.
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10% respiration and 90% inspiration” |
How was Flutino designed?
I started asking Ed, my dentist, to make a cast of my lips shaped as if whistling. The cast itself would make sound when I blew through it. Wax prototypes followed, which revealed how precise the geometry had to be in order to work. Then I used CAD to optimize the geometry systematically. Many prototypes were made by 3D printing and tested for playability. Rings were added after my sister Chari, who is a doctor, suggested it to keep players from swallowing it accidentally. |
Want to see and hear the Flutino in action? Here's a video:
