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Stonehenge, a still.

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Stonehenge

G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 373.5 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

Stonehenge is a ring of great standing stones on Salisbury Plain, in England.

Shelf
Landmarks
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 373.5 Hz, 84 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.

The sixteen ways Stonehenge's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1374 Hz
  2. 2514 Hz
  3. 3662 Hz
  4. 4665 Hz
  5. 5793 Hz
  6. 6818 Hz
  7. 7925 Hz
  8. 8961 Hz
  9. 9975 Hz
  10. 101065 Hz
  11. 111088 Hz
  12. 121135 Hz
  13. 131206 Hz
  14. 141215 Hz
  15. 151257 Hz
  16. 161294 Hz

How to play

Tap it for the midsummer sunrise shining through the stones.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Solstice sunriseTap
SolsticeButton

About it

Stonehenge is a ring of great standing stones on Salisbury Plain, in England. It was built in stages from about 5,000 years ago; some of its smaller stones, the bluestones, were brought from Wales, more than 200 kilometers (140 miles) away. Its biggest stones stand in pairs with a stone laid across the top, called trilithons.

Stonehenge is lined up with the sun: on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, the sun rises in line with its entrance. Tap it: the sun comes up over the far bank, framed by the great trilithon, a golden beam shines through the stones, and they glow gold.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,001 at Low, and up to 770,000 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=stonehenge<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="stonehenge"></splashery-toy>

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