Aisle 16No. 279 of 460
Splashery
Harpsichord
370,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Music · Built from a recipe
Harpsichord
A harpsichord plucks its strings instead of striking them.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap a key to pluck its string, or drag along the keys. Tap anywhere else for a minuet.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 279 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 16, Music
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 370,000
- Your own
- Voice tuner (labs)
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Apache-2.0, MIT, CC BY 4.0
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play the opening | Tap | ||
| Play the opening | Button | ||
| Play a key | Button |
About it
A harpsichord plucks its strings instead of striking them. Each key lifts a thin wooden jack, and a small quill on the jack catches the string on the way up. Because a pluck sounds the same however hard you press, players shape their music by timing. Harpsichords were the main keyboard of the 1600s and 1700s.
This one is painted in the French style, with black naturals and pale sharps. Tap a key and its jack rises, plucks, and the string quivers until the jack's felt stops it. Tap anywhere else for the Minuet in G from the notebook Bach kept for his wife, Anna Magdalena. Open a MIDI file of your own in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 119,997 at Low, and up to 530,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Libraries
- Apache-2.0
- Basic Pitch, ONNX (lane Audio piano, October 21, 2026)
- MIT
- ONNX Runtime Web 1.30.0 (its modules)
- CC BY 4.0
- Piano transcription note model, ONNX (lane Audio piano, October 21, 2026)
