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Jane Kass
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Free STL files for musicians & 3D printing enthusiasts! --> https://janekass.com/
I've also been working on getting the Pan Flute in D again.

I printed another test yesterday - the online pitch detector didn't seem to know how to interpret this one as it wouldn't settle on any particular notes during testing haha

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March 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Recorder: I found a recorder model that I made quite a while back, but I couldn't test print it with the our previous Dremel printer.

Now that we have the Bambu X1C to work with, I printed it - buuuut it sounds terrible 😂

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March 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Update: My musician friend said that GPT was a bit off with detecting keys. Ahh well, was worth a try!
Trying to 3D print a pan flute in D; since I can’t identify keys by ear, I used ChatGPT.

Original Pan Flute:
• Notes: G, A, B, C, D
• ChatGPT: "G major (G, A, B, C, D, E, F#)."

New Pan Flute:
• Notes: G#, A#, C, C#, D#
• ChatGPT: "roughly in G# minor or G# pentatonic."

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March 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Trying to 3D print a pan flute in D; since I can’t identify keys by ear, I used ChatGPT.

Original Pan Flute:
• Notes: G, A, B, C, D
• ChatGPT: "G major (G, A, B, C, D, E, F#)."

New Pan Flute:
• Notes: G#, A#, C, C#, D#
• ChatGPT: "roughly in G# minor or G# pentatonic."

#3DPrint #3DPrinting #Music
March 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Here's a video of my musician friend playing the Jane Kass Bass Ocarina!

You can 3D print your own for free:
STL Download -> janekass.com/bass-ocarina/
Also on Thingiverse -> www.thingiverse.com/thing:6915836

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February 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I've also been prototyping a death whistle. I'm trying for this sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Qu...

I'm 66 versions in, with version 64 sounding VERY close to what I'm looking for!

Additionally, here's a picture of my little army of prototypes haha

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February 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I've been slacking on social media updates - sometimes you get so caught up in creating that you forget to share!

Since December, I’ve made and uploaded a bass ocarina, another ocarina (with 8% smaller internals than my previous ocarina), and pitch pipes!

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February 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The triple Guiro is now available!

I tried printing this model 6-7 times with mixed success. If you're interested in a triple guiro and are up for a challenging print, details + settings are on Jane Kass' Thingiverse account www.thingiverse.com/thing:6865270

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December 9, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Triple Guiro Update:
As you can see by all of the scuff marks, it took an excessive amount of prying/leveraging to get the supports off of this print.

Trying to think of another way to get this print to work without breaking my fingers 😅

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December 7, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Triple Guiro Update:

Got excited thinking that I may have gotten the print time down to 6 hours. The supports came off like a dream, but the results were incredibly mid.

I'm facing the facts - this print will take 10 hours for good quality haha.

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December 5, 2024 at 1:29 AM
The ocarina made it to the 3rd page of Thingiverse's 'Most Popular in 30 Days'! I'm so grateful and thrilled to know that so many people are enjoying it and finding it useful 🥹

(I also love seeing the names of the collections people are adding this to)!

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December 5, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Triple Guiro Update:

I thought I'd try printing vertically w/o supports just in case it worked out (as it would have shaved 7 hours off of the 10 hour print time). The model was too stringy so I stopped the print.

Currently printing vertically with supports 🤞

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December 3, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Triple Guiro Update:

The model printed, but the supports are very hard to remove - I couldn't remove all of the inner supports.

The print position also left a huge mark on the outside of the print which doesn't work for me.

I'll work on fixing these issues!

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December 3, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Test-printing the first version of the Triple Guiro!

Reduced the print from 204g to 179g of PLA - a nice improvement.

I also tried to improve the print time (10 hours), but further optimizations didn’t help much with my setup.

Excited to see how this turns out!

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December 2, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Background on making the ocaguiro:

Once I made the ocarina base, it was a simple matter of making cuts into the side of the ocarina that didn't penetrate the inside of the instrument to make it into a simple guiro.

Also, the supports came off surprisingly easily by hand!

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November 22, 2024 at 12:50 PM
The ocaguiro (ocarina guiro hybrid) is now downloadable (and free, as always) on both JaneKass.com and Jane Kass' Thingiverse account!

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November 22, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Background on making the Ocarina:

It took about 10 attempts to get it right. Early versions weren't making sound at all or were making very poor quality sounds. The current version sounds good to my layman ear - I hope to have my musician friend print/test it soon!

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November 14, 2024 at 8:35 AM
After about 10 attempts, the Jane Kass ocarina is finished and sounds pretty good to me!

www.thingiverse.com/thing:6830992
janekass.com/ocarina/

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November 14, 2024 at 8:13 AM
I've managed to make my first functional ocarina!

The first version that I made -looked- like an ocarina, but didn’t produce any sound haha.

I still need to make a few more internal adjustments before moving on to fixing up the aesthetics, but it's coming along!

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November 11, 2024 at 6:16 AM