
Nature · Built from a recipe
Oak Tree
G4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 372.7 Hz.
The oak is a big, broad tree with a thick trunk and wavy-edged leaves, and its seeds are acorns.
- Shelf
- Nature
- 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 372.7 Hz, 87 cents flat of G4, 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.

- 1373 Hz
- 2501 Hz
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- 4645 Hz
- 5669 Hz
- 6754 Hz
- 7772 Hz
- 8807 Hz
- 9887 Hz
- 10936 Hz
- 11963 Hz
- 12967 Hz
- 131024 Hz
- 141050 Hz
- 151069 Hz
- 161130 Hz
How to play
Tap it to shake down its leaves. Hands-on: shake the trunk and the leaves fall.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shake the tree | Tap | ||
| Shake | Button | ||
| Season | List | 4 choices | Summer |
| Seed | List | 4 choices | 1 |
About it
The oak is a big, broad tree with a thick trunk and wavy-edged leaves, and its seeds are acorns. Oaks grow slowly and can live for hundreds of years. A single old oak is home to hundreds of kinds of insects, birds and other animals.
Tap it and the crown rocks on its trunk, and leaves come loose one by one and flutter down to the grass; then fresh leaves open in their place. In the Splash tab, pick spring, summer, autumn or winter, or a Seed for a different tree. In winter some oaks keep a few dead brown leaves on their twigs, and those are the ones that fall. With ✋ Hands-on on, shake the trunk (a quick back-and-forth drag on it) and the leaves fall and settle on the ground.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,737 at Low, and up to 900,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| FallingLeaves (oak-leaves.mp3) | falcospizaetus | CC0 1.0 |



