Sound Gallery - Cannon Fire

Cannon fire demonstration at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, MD

NPS Photo

• Cannon Fire

  
  

  Sound recording of cannon fire by the National Park Service Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division.

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  Audio Transcript

  The loud booming sound of a cannon firing.

Spectrogram of cannon fire. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right.

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