
Holidays · Built from a recipe
Decorated Tree
A4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 446.7 Hz.
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.

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- 121365 Hz
- 131424 Hz
- 141451 Hz
- 151503 Hz
- 161529 Hz
How to play
Tap to switch the lights on or off.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lights on or off | Tap | ||
| Lights | Switch | Off |
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
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Glockenspiel - C5 (glock_medium_C5.wav) (decorated-tree-bell.mp3) | sgossner | CC0 1.0 |
| Sleigh bells hit (decorated-tree-sleigh.mp3) | Selector | CC0 1.0 |



