
Balls · Built from a recipe
Marble
E4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 337.5 Hz.
A marble is a small, hard ball, usually of glass, with twists of color inside.
- Shelf
- Balls
- 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 337.5 Hz, 41 cents sharp of E4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1338 Hz
- 2488 Hz
- 3575 Hz
- 4650 Hz
- 5699 Hz
- 6811 Hz
- 7822 Hz
- 8846 Hz
- 9930 Hz
- 10956 Hz
- 111010 Hz
- 121058 Hz
- 131067 Hz
- 141117 Hz
- 151158 Hz
- 161170 Hz
How to play
Tap it to roll it around a little circle.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roll it | Tap | ||
| Roll it | Button | ||
| Swirl | Color | #1e88e5 |
About it
A marble is a small, hard ball, usually of glass, with twists of color inside. Children have played games with little balls of clay and stone for thousands of years; glass marbles became common in the 1800s. A twist of colored glass is set in the middle of the ball while the glass is hot and soft.
Tap it and it rolls around a little circle, turning the way it rolls, so the swirl inside turns too, under a polished glass shell that catches the light at its edge. After one lap it is back exactly as it was. Pick the color of the swirl in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 120,000 at Low, and up to 610,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Marble (single) rolling on wooden floor.wav (marble-roll.mp3) | LiezelDippenaar | CC0 1.0 |



