
Nature · Built from a recipe
Tulips
E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 605.1 Hz.
Tulips are spring flowers that grow from bulbs, each stem holding one cup-shaped flower.
- 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 605.1 Hz, 48 cents flat of E♭5. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1605 Hz
- 2834 Hz
- 31008 Hz
- 41078 Hz
- 51283 Hz
- 61320 Hz
- 71328 Hz
- 81409 Hz
- 91528 Hz
- 101534 Hz
- 111610 Hz
- 121648 Hz
- 131702 Hz
- 141767 Hz
- 151777 Hz
- 161815 Hz
How to play
Tap it to open the tulips to the sun. Hands-on: push a tulip; it sways back.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open to the sun | Tap | ||
| Open | Button | ||
| Color | Color | #d8202e |
About it
Tulips are spring flowers that grow from bulbs, each stem holding one cup-shaped flower. They first grew wild in the mountains of Central Asia. In the Netherlands in the 1600s, tulip bulbs became so prized that a single rare bulb could cost as much as a house.
Tap it and the three tulips open wide to the sun one after another, each petal turning out to show the dark stamens and the pale pistil inside, then they close up again. Real tulips open like this in warm sunshine and close again in the cool of the evening. With ✋ Hands-on on, push a tulip and it bends on its stem; let go and it springs back and sways.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 730,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.



