
Gems · Built from a recipe
Diamond
G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 398.9 Hz.
A diamond is pure carbon, squeezed into a crystal deep underground by great heat and pressure, and carried up to the surface by volcanic eruptions long ago.
- Shelf
- Gems
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- 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 398.9 Hz, 30 cents sharp of G4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1399 Hz
- 2564 Hz
- 3686 Hz
- 4727 Hz
- 5858 Hz
- 6883 Hz
- 7969 Hz
- 81031 Hz
- 91040 Hz
- 101144 Hz
- 111193 Hz
- 121199 Hz
- 131250 Hz
- 141323 Hz
- 151346 Hz
- 161362 Hz
How to play
Tap it to turn it in the light and flash its fire.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turn it in the light | Tap | ||
| Fire | Button | ||
| Tint | Color | #dbe9ff |
About it
A diamond is pure carbon, squeezed into a crystal deep underground by great heat and pressure, and carried up to the surface by volcanic eruptions long ago. It is the hardest natural material. This one has a brilliant cut, with dozens of small flat faces, called facets, to catch the light.
Tap it and it turns one way and the other, the way you would tilt a ring: facet after facet flashes with rainbow sparks. Jewelers call these colors fire. They come from the stone splitting white light into its colors, as a prism does.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 620,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |



