
Animals · Built from a recipe
Owl
A4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 428.0 Hz.
Owls are birds that mostly hunt at night.
- Shelf
- Animals
- 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 428.0 Hz, 48 cents flat of A4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1428 Hz
- 2585 Hz
- 3738 Hz
- 4757 Hz
- 5912 Hz
- 6937 Hz
- 71018 Hz
- 81070 Hz
- 91116 Hz
- 101191 Hz
- 111254 Hz
- 121304 Hz
- 131328 Hz
- 141373 Hz
- 151390 Hz
- 161463 Hz
How to play
Tap it to turn its head. Hands-on: press on its head and move around; it watches you.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turn the head | Tap | ||
| Turn head | Button |
About it
Owls are birds that mostly hunt at night. Their big eyes cannot move in their sockets, so an owl turns its whole head instead, as far as about 270 degrees, three-quarters of the way around. Soft, fringed edges on its feathers let it fly almost without a sound.
This owl sits on a branch. Tap it and it turns its head far around to look behind it, holds there a moment, then turns back to face you. With ✋ Hands-on on, press on its head and move your finger around: the owl turns its head to follow it. Pick it up by the body to toss it, and it settles back on its branch.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,001 at Low, and up to 370,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| owl_hooting_000102_0145S3 002-070 000-002 068-074.wav (owl-hoot-short.mp3) | Gerent | CC0 1.0 |



