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double flat

noun

Music.
  1. a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.

  2. a note or tone marked or affected by such a symbol.



double flat

noun

  1. music

    1. an accidental that lowers the pitch of the following note two semitones

    2. a note affected by this accidental

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. (postpositive) denoting a note of a given letter name lowered in pitch by two semitones

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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A double flat is two half steps lower than the natural note.

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“Come in, Antonio,” says the tenant of the double flat,—the one with two rooms,—“come and keep Christmas.”

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"Single and double flats," "open plumbing," "tiled vestibule," "uniformed hall service," and other stock terms, came trippingly from her tongue.

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"Come in, Antonio," says the tenant of the double flat,—the one with two rooms,—"come and keep Christmas."

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Not only all the natural or diatonic notes are regarded as belonging to a key, but also all the chromatics, the sharps and flats, and the double sharps and double flats.

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