
Gems · Built from a recipe
Opal
G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 385.0 Hz.
Opal is made of tiny balls of silica, the stuff of quartz and sand, with a little water between them.
- Shelf
- Gems
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- 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 385.0 Hz, 31 cents flat of G4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1385 Hz
- 2524 Hz
- 3670 Hz
- 4689 Hz
- 5815 Hz
- 6826 Hz
- 7947 Hz
- 8981 Hz
- 9999 Hz
- 101084 Hz
- 111124 Hz
- 121140 Hz
- 131223 Hz
- 141251 Hz
- 151299 Hz
- 161308 Hz
How to play
Tap it to tilt it and roll flashes of color across it. Pick an opal in the Splash tab.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tilt it in the light | Tap | ||
| Play of color | Button | ||
| Opal | List | 3 choices | White opal |
About it
Opal is made of tiny balls of silica, the stuff of quartz and sand, with a little water between them. In precious opal the balls are packed in neat rows, and light passing through them splits into flashes of color that change as the stone moves. This is called play of color. Fire opal is named for its orange body. Opal is cut into a smooth dome called a cabochon, not into facets.
Tap it and it rocks in the light while patches of color roll across it, changing as they go. In the Splash tab, pick a white, black or fire opal. Most of the world's opal comes from Australia.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 440,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |



