Odisei Music and its electronic 3D printed saxophone

It’s not the first time we’ve talked about 3D printed musical instruments. Today, the inclusion of additive manufacturing in art and music is becoming increasingly noticeable. An example of this is Odisei Music, a young company that has designed and manufactured electronic wind instruments, the most famous being its electronic 3D printed saxophone. Its aim is to spread music around the world by helping musicians to develop their musical skills in a faster and easier way. To learn more about this company and its relationship to additive manufacturing technologies, we spoke with Odisei Music Founder and CEO, Ramon Mañas.

3DN: Can you introduce yourself and tell us how you came to know about 3D printing?

Ramon Mañas

I’m Ramon Mañas and I’m from Barcelona. I currently live in Sant Cugat del Vallés where we have our office. I am an Industrial Design Engineer by profession. My hobbies are music and automotive. The relationship between 3D printing started while I was studying engineering. In the university we had an FDM Stratasys printer with which we made prototypes for some of the projects that required it. Years later I started working at HP in the 3D printing sales department, which is when I got involved in the industry.

I had to do a lot of training to understand all the 3D printing technologies on the market. That way I learned very well how the HP Jet Fusion technology I was selling differed from the rest of the competitors. It was also while working at HP that I started to develop the Travel Sax in parallel (in the afternoons and evenings at the end of my working day). From the very beginning I was convinced that the Travel Sax would be manufactured thanks to 3D printing because of the advantages of additive manufacturing.