Splashery

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Music Box, a still.

Music · Built from a recipe

Music Box

F4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 361.9 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A music box plays a tune all by itself.

Shelf
Music
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 361.9 Hz, 62 cents sharp of F4, 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 Music Box's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1362 Hz
  2. 2501 Hz
  3. 3610 Hz
  4. 4682 Hz
  5. 5720 Hz
  6. 6827 Hz
  7. 7862 Hz
  8. 8891 Hz
  9. 9980 Hz
  10. 101008 Hz
  11. 111059 Hz
  12. 121067 Hz
  13. 131114 Hz
  14. 141167 Hz
  15. 151215 Hz
  16. 161258 Hz

How to play

Tap to close or open the lid. With ✋ on, turn the crank round to play the tune note by note.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Open or closeTap
OpenSwitchOn
WoodColor#8a4526

About it

A music box plays a tune all by itself. Inside, a spring turns a metal cylinder covered in tiny pins. As it turns, the pins pluck the teeth of a steel comb, and each tooth rings with its own note: the longer the tooth, the lower the note.

This music box starts open, with a little dancer twirling on its stand while the tune plays and music notes float up. Tap to close the lid and stop the music, and tap again to open it. Pick the color of the wood in the Splash tab. With ✋ Hands-on on, lift or close the lid on its hinge yourself, and turn the crank by drawing circles round it: each click plays the tune's next note and the dancer turns.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 56,079 at Low, and up to 770,000 at Max

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Impact Sounds (kenney-wood-medium.mp3)KenneyCC0 1.0

In The Splash Manual

  1. Chapter 6: Moving things
  2. Using Splashery

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

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