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Palm Tree, a still.

Nature · Built from a recipe

Palm Tree

E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 590.8 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

The coconut palm grows on warm, sandy coasts all around the tropics.

Shelf
Nature
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 590.8 Hz, 90 cents flat of E♭5, 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 Palm Tree's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1591 Hz
  2. 2773 Hz
  3. 3826 Hz
  4. 4964 Hz
  5. 51050 Hz
  6. 61075 Hz
  7. 71169 Hz
  8. 81188 Hz
  9. 91251 Hz
  10. 101378 Hz
  11. 111397 Hz
  12. 121414 Hz
  13. 131503 Hz
  14. 141556 Hz
  15. 151593 Hz
  16. 161600 Hz

How to play

Tap it to shake down the coconuts. Hands-on: pull a coconut off and drop it.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Shake down the coconutsTap
ShakeButton

About it

The coconut palm grows on warm, sandy coasts all around the tropics. It has no branches: its tall, bendy trunk ends in a crown of giant feathery leaves, called fronds, with the coconuts hanging in bunches beneath them.

Tap it and the crown shakes, and the five coconuts drop one after another, thump into the sand, bounce and roll to a stop; then new green coconuts swell in the crown. A coconut can float, so it can drift across the sea for weeks and sprout on a faraway beach. With ✋ Hands-on on, pull a coconut and it snaps off into your hand; drop it and it bounces and rolls on the sand; reset puts them back.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,998 at Low, and up to 990,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

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

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