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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.
| ♭ | |
|---|---|
Flat (music) | |
| In Unicode | U+266D ♭ MUSIC FLAT SIGN (♭) |
| Different from | |
| Different from | U+0062 b LATIN SMALL LETTER B |
| Related | |
| See also | U+1D12B &sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Chambers_1908_Music_Double_Flat.png){kind=small} MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE FLAT U+266F ♯ MUSIC SHARP SIGN |
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.