
Gems · Built from a recipe
Sapphire
G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 370.6 Hz.
A sapphire is the mineral corundum, the same as ruby, but colored blue by iron and titanium.
- 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 370.6 Hz, 97 cents flat 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.

- 1371 Hz
- 2520 Hz
- 3648 Hz
- 4677 Hz
- 5790 Hz
- 6829 Hz
- 7918 Hz
- 8954 Hz
- 9986 Hz
- 101067 Hz
- 111088 Hz
- 121145 Hz
- 131193 Hz
- 141225 Hz
- 151246 Hz
- 161306 Hz
How to play
Tap it to catch the six-rayed star gliding across it.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catch the star | Tap | ||
| Star | Button | ||
| Color | Color | #1f4fd1 |
About it
A sapphire is the mineral corundum, the same as ruby, but colored blue by iron and titanium. Sapphires come in many colors, from yellow to pink, but blue is the best known. They are very hard, so they last a long time in rings.
Some sapphires show a star of six rays, because tiny needles of another mineral inside reflect the light. The star is called an asterism, and it moves as the stone or the light moves. Tap it to catch the star: its rays spread out from a bright center, it glides across the top, and the rays draw back in at the far side.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 830,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |



