
Gems · Built from a recipe
Emerald
G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 404.9 Hz.
An emerald is a green form of the mineral beryl, colored by tiny amounts of chromium or vanadium.
- 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 404.9 Hz, 56 cents sharp of G4, 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.

- 1405 Hz
- 2521 Hz
- 3667 Hz
- 4742 Hz
- 5815 Hz
- 6830 Hz
- 7932 Hz
- 8988 Hz
- 91065 Hz
- 101091 Hz
- 111142 Hz
- 121154 Hz
- 131213 Hz
- 141241 Hz
- 151310 Hz
- 161352 Hz
How to play
Tap it to send green light spiraling around its steps.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Run light round the steps | Tap | ||
| Shine | Button | ||
| Color | Color | #119a5b |
About it
An emerald is a green form of the mineral beryl, colored by tiny amounts of chromium or vanadium. Most emeralds have little specks and cracks inside them, and jewelers often cut them in rows of long, flat steps. That shape is so common for emeralds that it is called the emerald cut.
A step cut works like a hall of mirrors. Tap it and green light races around the edges of the steps, each one a moment behind the one outside it, so the light spirals in to the flat top, the table. Some of the finest emeralds come from Colombia.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,728 at Low, and up to 730,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |



