Flat (music)
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"♭" redirects here. Not to be confused with the Latin lowercase letter b, Ƅ or Cyrillic letter Soft sign (Ь).
In music, flat means lower in pitch. It may either be used generically, meaning any lowering of pitch, or refer to a particular size: lowering pitch by a chromatic semitone. A flat is the opposite of a sharp (♯) which raises pitch by the same amount that a flat lowers it.
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Flat (music) | |
In Unicode | U+266D ♭ MUSIC FLAT SIGN (♭) |
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Different from | U+0062 b LATIN SMALL LETTER B |
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See also | U+1D12B MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE FLAT U+266F ♯ MUSIC SHARP SIGN |
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The flat symbol (♭) is used in two ways: It is placed in key signatures to mark lines whose notes are flattened throughout that section of music; it may also be an "accidental" that precedes an individual note and indicates that the note should be lowered temporarily, until the following bar line.