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Decorated Tree, a still.

Holidays · Built from a recipe

Decorated Tree

A4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 446.7 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A decorated tree is an evergreen tree, such as a fir or a pine, brought indoors and hung with lights, ornaments and a star on top for the Christmas season.

Shelf
Holidays
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 446.7 Hz, 26 cents sharp of A4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Decorated Tree's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1447 Hz
  2. 2655 Hz
  3. 3726 Hz
  4. 4851 Hz
  5. 5956 Hz
  6. 6992 Hz
  7. 71047 Hz
  8. 81161 Hz
  9. 91219 Hz
  10. 101248 Hz
  11. 111261 Hz
  12. 121365 Hz
  13. 131424 Hz
  14. 141451 Hz
  15. 151503 Hz
  16. 161529 Hz

How to play

Tap to switch the lights on or off.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Lights on or offTap
LightsSwitchOff

About it

A decorated tree is an evergreen tree, such as a fir or a pine, brought indoors and hung with lights, ornaments and a star on top for the Christmas season. The custom began in Germany about 500 years ago and spread around the world. Evergreens stay green all winter, so they became a sign of life in the darkest time of the year.

The tree starts with its lights off. Tap to switch them on: they sweep up the tree, stay on and cycle through chasing, rippling and steady patterns, while the star glows. Tap again to switch them off. The first electric tree lights were made in 1882. With ✋ Hands-on on, pick the tree up and shake it: the baubles swing on their hooks, harder the harder you shake, then settle.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,924 at Low, and up to 830,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Share it

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

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