Sound Gallery - Musket Fire

Musket demonstration at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve, LA

NPS Photo by A.J. Sisco

• Musket Fire

  
  

  Sound recording of musket fire, Minute Man National Historical Park, Massachusetts.

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  Audio Transcript

  A person saying, "make ready, pre-sent, fire!" and then the sounds of muskets firing.

Spectrogram of musket 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. In this image, note the difference in frequencies and amplitudes between the harmonic human voice and the loud, all-frequency musket fire

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