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Music notation glossary · Accidentals

Double flat

two semitones lower

As a Unicode character — to paste into text, spreadsheets or chat. Whether it appears depends on the font.

In the score

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What it means

Lowers by a whole tone. In the diminished seventh chord on E flat the top note is B double flat — it sounds like A, but it is a lowered B.

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Every note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.