Music · Built from a recipe
Harpsichord
G4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 400.8 Hz.
A harpsichord plucks its strings instead of striking them.
- Shelf
- Music
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Your own
- Voice tuner (labs)
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- Apache-2.0, MIT, CC BY 4.0
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 400.8 Hz, 38 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.
- 1401 Hz
- 2582 Hz
- 3679 Hz
- 4772 Hz
- 5836 Hz
- 6956 Hz
- 7974 Hz
- 81026 Hz
- 91099 Hz
- 101150 Hz
- 111220 Hz
- 121251 Hz
- 131282 Hz
- 141335 Hz
- 151378 Hz
- 161417 Hz
How to play
Tap a key to pluck its string, or drag along the keys. Tap anywhere else for a minuet.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play the opening | Tap | ||
| Play the opening | Button | ||
| Play a key | Button |
About it
A harpsichord plucks its strings instead of striking them. Each key lifts a thin wooden jack, and a small quill on the jack catches the string on the way up. Because a pluck sounds the same however hard you press, players shape their music by timing. Harpsichords were the main keyboard of the 1600s and 1700s.
This one is painted in the French style, with black naturals and pale sharps. Tap a key and its jack rises, plucks, and the string quivers until the jack's felt stops it. Tap anywhere else for the Minuet in G from the notebook Bach kept for his wife, Anna Magdalena. Open a MIDI file of your own in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 119,997 at Low, and up to 530,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Libraries
- Apache-2.0
- Basic Pitch, ONNX (lane Audio piano, October 21, 2026)
- MIT
- ONNX Runtime Web 1.30.0 (its modules)
- CC BY 4.0
- Piano transcription note model, ONNX (lane Audio piano, October 21, 2026)
