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Crossbow, a still.

Medieval · Built from a recipe

Crossbow

C6 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 1054.2 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

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.

The sixteen ways Crossbow's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 11054 Hz
  2. 21162 Hz
  3. 31286 Hz
  4. 41427 Hz
  5. 51472 Hz
  6. 61576 Hz
  7. 71696 Hz
  8. 81797 Hz
  9. 91937 Hz
  10. 102011 Hz
  11. 112058 Hz
  12. 122079 Hz
  13. 132193 Hz
  14. 142292 Hz
  15. 152389 Hz
  16. 162433 Hz

How to play

Tap it to shoot a bolt; the string snaps and a new bolt loads.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
ShootTap
ShootButton

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

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This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=crossbow<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="crossbow"></splashery-toy>

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