Xylophone

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 1525.4 Hz, 152 cents sharp of F6, 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 a bar, or drag across the bars for a glissando. Tap the mallet or frame to play a scale.

A xylophone is a row of tuned wooden bars that you strike with a mallet. Each bar's length sets its note: the shorter the bar, the higher it sounds. The name comes from the Greek for “wood” and “sound”.

This splash one has eight colored bars, a scale from C up to the next C. Tap a bar and the mallet swings over and strikes it, and the bar jumps and plays its note, so you can play a tune. Tap the mallet, a wheel or the ends of the frame instead, and it plays the whole scale. Drag along the bars for a run of notes, called a glissando.

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

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