Grand Piano

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 410.2 Hz, 79 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.

Tap or drag along the keys to play them. Tap elsewhere for a song; the song bar plays it all.

A grand piano is a keyboard instrument whose strings lie flat under a lid shaped like a wing. Each of its 88 keys throws a felt hammer up against its strings, and most notes have dampers that lift to let them ring until the key comes up. The right pedal lifts every damper at once. Bartolomeo Cristofori built the first pianos in Italy around 1700.

Tap a key and it dips, its hammer strikes and its damper lifts. Tap anywhere else for the opening of Für Elise, or pick Clair de lune, Gymnopédie No. 1 or Ode to Joy in the Splash tab. The song bar plays, pauses, loops and slows a song, and you can open a MIDI file of your own or paste a tune in ABC notation.

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.