Upright Piano

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 282.3 Hz, 132 cents sharp of C4, 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.

Tap or drag along the keys to play them. Tap elsewhere for a ragtime; the song bar plays it all.

An upright piano stands its strings on end, so a full piano fits against a wall. Its hammers swing forward onto the strings instead of flying up, and a spring brings them back. Uprights filled homes, schools and dance halls, and a slightly out-of-tune one gives the bright, jangly honky-tonk sound of ragtime.

This one has its upper front panel off, so you see the row of hammers, the dampers above them and the strings behind. Tap a key and its hammer strikes. Tap anywhere else for the opening of The Entertainer, a rag Scott Joplin published in 1902. Open a MIDI file of your own, or paste a tune in ABC notation, in the Splash tab.

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.