French inventor Nicolas Bras has created more than 1,500 unusual musical instruments using scrap pipes and plastic, reports infohub.kz.
A self-taught musician from France, he has been building rare sound devices for fifteen years. As a teenager, he crafted his first wind instrument from an ordinary water pipe, then became obsessed with creating complex contraptions from any available junk.
His creative possibilities truly opened up after he bought a 3D printer. The device became a miniature factory for the craftsman, capable of bringing any idea to life in plastic.
Over the years, Bras has produced hundreds of noisemakers, flutes, and whistles. He gained particular popularity with a plastic flute model on which it is impossible to play a wrong note. He has more than 1,500 working prototypes to his name, and only a handful turned out to be failures. The inventor insists that each new item is, above all, a useful blank or a handy tool, not just a pretty trinket.
Today, the craftsman's unusual creations are used to record sound effects for films and video games. Soon, one of his largest systems—consisting of three hundred plastic flutes and kilometers of flexible hoses—will be performed on a major Paris concert stage with a full orchestra.
The Frenchman generously shares all his blueprints and assembly diagrams for his incredible hybrids online, so that anyone can print them for free.