
Medieval · Built from a recipe
Crystal Ball
C5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 554.2 Hz.
A crystal ball is a ball of clear glass or quartz.
- 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 554.2 Hz, 99 cents sharp of C5, 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.

- 1554 Hz
- 2694 Hz
- 3845 Hz
- 4893 Hz
- 5932 Hz
- 61087 Hz
- 71110 Hz
- 81147 Hz
- 91178 Hz
- 101276 Hz
- 111304 Hz
- 121358 Hz
- 131395 Hz
- 141428 Hz
- 151472 Hz
- 161498 Hz
How to play
Tap to gaze into it. Hands-on: lift the ball off its stand, roll it, set it back.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaze into the ball | Tap | ||
| Sparkle | Slider | 0 to 100% | 50% |
| Gaze | Button | ||
| Mist | Color | #b061ff |
About it
A crystal ball is a ball of clear glass or quartz. In old stories, fortune tellers gaze into one to see visions of what is to come. A real clear ball also works like a lens: look through it and you see the room behind it, small and upside down.
This one is filled with glowing mist. Tap it and the mist whips around and thins, and a glowing sign rises out of it, turns once and fades: a star, a moon or a heart in turn. Pick the color of the mist in the Splash tab. Sparkle adjusts the sparkling effect in the ball. With ✋ Hands-on on, lift the ball off its stand and set it down or roll it on the table, its mist swirling inside; bring it back over the stand and it settles into its cup.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 57,272 at Low, and up to 860,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Wine glass clink deeper.wav (crystal-ball-ring.mp3) | lmr9 | CC0 1.0 |



