Landmarks · Built from a recipe
Tower of Pisa
E5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 647.2 Hz.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, in Italy, is the bell tower of the city's cathedral.
- Shelf
- Landmarks
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 647.2 Hz, 32 cents flat of E5. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.
- 1647 Hz
- 2770 Hz
- 3870 Hz
- 4947 Hz
- 5998 Hz
- 61130 Hz
- 71203 Hz
- 81281 Hz
- 91389 Hz
- 101416 Hz
- 111462 Hz
- 121477 Hz
- 131547 Hz
- 141595 Hz
- 151617 Hz
- 161655 Hz
How to play
Tap to drop two balls from the top. Set the lean in the Splash tab.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drop two balls | Tap | ||
| Lean | Slider | 0 to 100% | 35% |
| Drop | Button |
About it
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, in Italy, is the bell tower of the city's cathedral. Building began in 1173, and the tower started to lean while it was still being built, because the ground under it is soft; it took about 200 years to finish. Engineers straightened it a little from 1990 to 2001, and it now leans about 4 degrees.
The story goes that Galileo dropped two balls of different weights from the top to show that they fall together. Tap it and try it: a big iron ball and a small bronze one roll off the top and land at the same moment. Set the lean with the Lean slider in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,681 at Low, and up to 750,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
