
Photoreal · Capture
Cluster Fly
E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 604.1 Hz.
Cluster flies are a little larger than house flies, with golden hairs on their backs.
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 604.1 Hz, 51 cents flat of E♭5, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1604 Hz
- 2823 Hz
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- 41061 Hz
- 51228 Hz
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- 101510 Hz
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- 131719 Hz
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- 151860 Hz
- 161866 Hz
How to play
Tap it to make it groom its legs and face.
About it
Cluster flies are a little larger than house flies, with golden hairs on their backs. They get their name from the way hundreds of them gather in attics and window frames in autumn to wait out the winter. Their young live in the soil, feeding on earthworms.
Tap it and it grooms like a real fly: the front legs rub together, reach up and wipe its face while its head dips, and then it gives a little shake. Flies clean themselves often because their legs and eyes need to stay free of dust to taste and see.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Cluster FlyConverted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)



