
Weather & Fire · Built from a recipe
Iceberg
A4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 478.8 Hz.
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.

- 1479 Hz
- 2731 Hz
- 3768 Hz
- 4944 Hz
- 51046 Hz
- 61063 Hz
- 71198 Hz
- 81226 Hz
- 91315 Hz
- 101357 Hz
- 111446 Hz
- 121495 Hz
- 131499 Hz
- 141565 Hz
- 151627 Hz
- 161689 Hz
How to play
Tap it to break off a chunk into the sea.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Break off a chunk | Tap | ||
| Calve | Button |
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
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Ice Crack 1 (iceberg-crack.mp3) | j_p_higgins | CC0 1.0 |



