Relaxing TAIKO Speaker (太鼓スピーカー)

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TAIKO Speakers (太鼓スピーカー) produce very relaxing sound, and works great with Jazz, classical music, strings like guitar or violin or cello, piano, vocal, bossa, etc. (Not that impressive with Rock, Heavymetal type of music though). There are commercially available version of this type of speakers (HADO Speaker／波動スピーカー) in Japan, but I don't think they sell those anywhere else, and those are pretty expensive. So some people started making similar stuff by their own as a hobby and some of those people published the plans/drawings. But those are not easy to build. I couldn't find any 3D-printable version of TAIKO speaker, so I took one of those DIY plan and re-designed it to make it 3D-printable. I was not sure if a 3D-printed TAIKO speaker would sound good or not, but to my surprise, it sounds really nice! As they say it's not good with rock music, but it works great with above music especially smooth jazz, piano, classical guitars, etc. I have been enjoying the relaxing sound of TAIKO speaker since I built it, and I would like to share my experience with others, so I am publishing this 3D model here. Please take a look at the instruction video on YouTube (https://youtu.be/VzrklYkBZgk) before you build it. As I mentioned in the video, I used wood filament to print this model expecting it sounds better than pure plastic, but I am not entirely sure that wood filament sounds better than PLA/ABS. But at least the wood filament objects smell better. Haha :-) Acknowledgements (謝辞): I used a drawing of the TAIKO speaker from the below web site as a template. https://www-prius.at.webry.info/201008/article_12.html Without this website, I could not build this fantastic speaker. I would like to thank them (DEMURIN-san and SHIMOCHAN-san, etc.) for great ideas and discussions.