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I've been wanting to make this table (source: Jeff Grubb (April 1987). “Plane Speaking: Tuning in to the Outer Planes”. In Roger E. Moore ed. Dragon #120 (TSR, Inc.), pp. 42–43.) for a long time:

Plane	Planar Fork		Color Pool	Ethereal Curtain
	Material	Pitch or Chord
The Prime	Steel	C  listen	Silver	Metallic silver or turquoise
The Feywild			Emerald green	Opalescent white
The Shadowfell			Spiraling black	Silver or dusky gray
Elemental Planes
Fire	Copper	A  listen	Fire emerald	Flickering green or red
Earth	Zinc	A  listen	Moss granite	Flickering gray or brown
Water	Lead	A  listen	Dark blue	Flickering blue or green
Air	Tin	A  listen	Pale blue	Flickering white or blue
Para-elemental Planes
Smoke	Bronze	A  listen		Pearl
Magma	Brass	A  listen		Maroon
Ooze	Zinc/lead	A  listen		Chocolate
Ice	Pewter	A  listen		Aquamarine
Quasi-Elemental Planes
Radiance	Copper	A♯  listen		Shifting rainbow
Mineral	Zinc	A♯  listen		Milky pink
Steam	Lead	A♯  listen		Ivory
Lightning	Tin	A♯  listen		Violet
Ash	Copper	A♭  listen		Dark gray
Dust	Zinc	A♭  listen		Dun
Salt	Lead	A♭  listen		Tan
Vacuum	Tin	A♭  listen		Ebony
Energy Planes
Positive	None known		Shining white	Shining white
Negative	None known		Cold ebony	Glossy black
Transitive Planes
Ethereal	Glass	B  listen	Spiraling white	—
Astral	Quartz	B  listen	—	Swirling gray
Shadow			Spiraling black	Silver or dusky gray
Outer Planes
Outlands	Platinum	C  listen	Leather brown	Brown
Cynosure	None		None	None
The Fugue	None		None	None
Mechanus	Silver	C  listen	Diamond	White
Arcadia   Abellio   Buxenus   Layer 3	Gold	C♯  listen C♯ major  listen C♯ minor  listen	Saffron — —	Pale yellow
Celestia   Lunia   Mercuria   Venya   Other layers	Gold	D  listen D major  listen D minor  listen Unknown	Gold — — —	Brilliant yellow
Bytopia   Dothion   Shurrock	Gold	E♭  listen E♭ major  listen	Amber —	Dark yellow
Elysium   Amoria   Eronia   Belierin   Thalasia	Gold	E  listen E major  listen E minor  listen Unknown	Opal — — —	Dark green
The Beastlands   Krigala   Brux   Karasuthra	Gold	F  listen F major  listen F minor  listen	Emerald — —	Emerald green
Arborea   Arvandor     Arvandor   Aquallor   Mithardir	Gold	F♯  listen F♯ major  listen F♯ minor  listen	Sapphire Dark green — —	Bright blue
Ysgard   Ysgard   Muspelheim   Nidavellir	Gold	G  listen G major  listen G minor  listen	Indigo — —	Purple
Limbo	Nickel	C  listen	Jet	Swirling black
Pandemonium   Pandesmos   Cocytus   Phlegethon   Agathion	Iron	C♯  listen C♯ major  listen C♯ minor  listen Unknown	Magenta — — —	Crimson
The Abyss   Layer 1   Other layers	Iron	D  listen Unknown	Amethyst —	Swirling red
Carceri   Orthrys   Cathrys   Minethys   Other layers	Iron	E♭  listen E♭ major  listen E♭ minor  listen Unknown	Olive or red — — —	Gray-green
Hades   Oinos   Niflheim   Pluton	Iron	E  listen E major  listen E minor  listen	Rust — Iron gray	Dark red
Gehenna   Khalas   Chamada   Mungoth   Krangath	Iron	F  listen F major  listen F minor  listen Unknown	Russet — — —	Bright red
The Nine Hells   Avernus   Dis   Minauros   Other layers	Iron	F♯  listen F♯ major  listen F♯ minor  listen Unknown	Ruby — — —	Red & black
Acheron   Avalas   Thuldanin   Tintibulus   Ocanthus	Iron	G  listen G major  listen G minor  listen Unknown	Flame — — —	Metallic red

Let me know if you have any suggestions. Right now, I have it sitting in the Plane shift article.

~ Lhynard (talk) 03:12, July 9, 2018 (UTC)

This is amazing. An excellent addition to plane shift lore. And pretty cool for musically inclined players and DMs! :)

Is there a more recent version of this table that includes newer planes such as the Feywild and the Shadowfell, for example?

Sirwhiteout (talk) 19:02, July 9, 2018 (UTC)

If there is a newer version, I don't know if it. I myself was wondering how one might get to even the Plane of Shadow, to say nothing of the 4e or 5e planes. It is easy for a DM to fill in some missing notes or materials or fancy chords. Maybe adamantine B for Shadow and mithral B for the Feywild? I think I might have my players have to figure out that an augmented chord takes them to the fourth layer. :)

~ Lhynard (talk) 20:05, July 9, 2018 (UTC)

The Far Realm.

I have come up with a tuning fork for the far realm: Black quarts tuning fork tuned to a D4 minor, this opens a swirling Watercourse green portal.