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Iceberg, a still.

Weather & Fire · Built from a recipe

Iceberg

A4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 478.8 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

An iceberg is a huge piece of ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and floats out to sea.

Shelf
Weather & Fire
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 478.8 Hz, 146 cents sharp of A4, 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.

The sixteen ways Iceberg's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1479 Hz
  2. 2731 Hz
  3. 3768 Hz
  4. 4944 Hz
  5. 51046 Hz
  6. 61063 Hz
  7. 71198 Hz
  8. 81226 Hz
  9. 91315 Hz
  10. 101357 Hz
  11. 111446 Hz
  12. 121495 Hz
  13. 131499 Hz
  14. 141565 Hz
  15. 151627 Hz
  16. 161689 Hz

How to play

Tap it to break off a chunk into the sea.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Break off a chunkTap
CalveButton

About it

An iceberg is a huge piece of ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and floats out to sea. It is made of fresh water that fell as snow long ago. Ice is a little lighter than seawater, so an iceberg floats, but only about one tenth of it shows above the water.

When a chunk breaks off, it is called calving. Tap it and a chunk cracks off, showing fresh pale ice, and tips into the sea with a splash of spray and rings of ripples. The chunk bobs, and the iceberg, now lighter, bobs and rocks. Then the chunk melts away and the splash grows it back.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,889 at Low, and up to 490,000 at Max

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Ice Crack 1 (iceberg-crack.mp3)j_p_higginsCC0 1.0

Share it

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

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=iceberg<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="iceberg"></splashery-toy>

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