
Nature · Built from a recipe
Saguaro Cactus
E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 603.5 Hz.
The saguaro is a giant cactus of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Mexico.
- Shelf
- Nature
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- 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 603.5 Hz, 53 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.

- 1604 Hz
- 2657 Hz
- 3816 Hz
- 4877 Hz
- 5974 Hz
- 61042 Hz
- 71117 Hz
- 81141 Hz
- 91217 Hz
- 101278 Hz
- 111326 Hz
- 121340 Hz
- 131419 Hz
- 141450 Hz
- 151509 Hz
- 161573 Hz
How to play
Tap for the spines, then a look inside. Set its arms and flowers in the Splash tab.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spines out, then a look inside | Tap | ||
| Spines or cut-away | Button | ||
| Arms | Setting | ||
| Flowers | Setting | ||
| Seed | List | 4 choices | 1 |
About it
The saguaro is a giant cactus of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Mexico. It grows very slowly but can reach about 12 meters tall and live for 150 years or more, and it may not grow its first arm until it is at least 50 years old. Its white flowers bloom on the tips in late spring.
Taps take turns. The first shoots all the spines out and draws them back; the next slides a wedge out of the trunk to show the inside: wet, pale green flesh around a ring of woody ribs. Its pleats spread like an accordion to store water after rain. Set the number of arms and the flowers in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 530,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.



