
Medieval · Built from a recipe
Crossbow
C6 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 1054.2 Hz.
A crossbow is a short, strong bow fixed crosswise on a wooden stock.
- Shelf
- Medieval
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 1054.2 Hz, 13 cents sharp of C6. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 11054 Hz
- 21162 Hz
- 31286 Hz
- 41427 Hz
- 51472 Hz
- 61576 Hz
- 71696 Hz
- 81797 Hz
- 91937 Hz
- 102011 Hz
- 112058 Hz
- 122079 Hz
- 132193 Hz
- 142292 Hz
- 152389 Hz
- 162433 Hz
How to play
Tap it to shoot a bolt; the string snaps and a new bolt loads.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shoot | Tap | ||
| Shoot | Button |
About it
A crossbow is a short, strong bow fixed crosswise on a wooden stock. The drawn string is held back by a catch, so it can wait until the trigger lets it go. It shoots short, thick arrows called bolts. Crossbows were used in China more than 2,000 years ago and later all over medieval Europe, and today people shoot them at targets as a sport.
Tap it: the trigger lets the string go, the string snaps forward with a buzz and the bolt flies off along its groove. Then the string is drawn back and a new bolt appears. With ✋ Hands-on on, it starts cocked: tap it to pull the trigger and the bolt flies, then pull the string back until it clicks onto the catch, and a new bolt lies in the groove.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,999 at Low, and up to 230,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Bow Release (Bow and Arrow) 3 (bow-and-target-release.mp3) | Ali_6868 | CC0 1.0 |



