Any music reader will be able to identify the symbols for accidentals – sharps, flats and naturals. What they probably don’t know, however, is where the notation itself comes from. Why, for example, does the symbol for a flat look like the letter b? I’d been wondering this for a while, so decided I’d find out.
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