
Nature · Built from a recipe
Pebbles
G4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 426.6 Hz.
Pebbles are small stones rounded smooth by water.
- 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 426.6 Hz, 146 cents sharp 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.

- 1427 Hz
- 2562 Hz
- 3715 Hz
- 4748 Hz
- 5815 Hz
- 6876 Hz
- 7894 Hz
- 8992 Hz
- 91044 Hz
- 101097 Hz
- 111122 Hz
- 121154 Hz
- 131202 Hz
- 141214 Hz
- 151276 Hz
- 161323 Hz
How to play
Drag a pebble to pick it up and set it on another to stack them. Tap to tumble them.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tumble and stack | Tap | ||
| Tumble and stack | Button | ||
| Style | List | 2 choices | Pebble pile |
| Seed | List | 4 choices | 1 |
About it
Pebbles are small stones rounded smooth by water. As rivers and waves roll them over and over, knocking against sand and other stones, their sharp corners wear away, a process that can take hundreds or thousands of years. A cairn is a pile of stones stacked up by people, often to mark a trail.
Drag a pebble to lift it and set it on the sand or on another stone. A careful stack stands; one set on the edge topples. The ✋ button turns this off, and reset puts every stone back. Tap it and five pebbles hop one at a time onto a cairn, biggest at the bottom, then all hop back. Pick a pile or a cairn in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,999 at Low, and up to 830,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Slow Pebble Tumble.wav (rocks-pebbles.mp3) | bbrocer | CC0 1.0 |



