Around music, flat means "lower in pitch." Supplementary specifically, within music notation, flat means "lower in pitch by a semitone," and has an associated symbol ($\backslash flat$), which looks rather the lowercase "b"; a note A flat is shown in musical notation in Figure 1. Under equal temperament, C flat is the equivalent when, or even enharmonically equivalent to, B & F flat is the equivalent when E. There as well survive double-flats, which look prefer $\backslash flat\backslash flat$ & lower the note by deuce half step. Less typically a single might encounter half, 3-three-quarter-length, or even otherwise altered flats.

Inside musical tuning, flat can also mean "very slightly lower in pitch." Whenever 2 strings come slightly away from tune, a lower-pitched 1 is said to become flat by owning respect to the more.

Play an A and an A flat

Watch likewise: sharp.

A Unicode character '♭' (U+266D) might display as a flat sign up occasionally computers.

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