Re: Triple b or # - do they exist?

[David Kastrup]

Éditions IN NOMINE <address@hidden> writes:

>>> last night in a discussion someone claimed that there is a triple bbb in 
>>> real music, he said it was in a Chopin piece but could not say which.
>>> I think I am fairly educated in music but never heard of a triple bbb or 
>>> ###. Do you know any?
> Double b or sharp are used to play a note in the appropriate scale :
> for instance, a cisis before a dis, in a \key with lots of
> sharps.

They are also commonly used in diminuished chords, like b double flat in
c:dim.  So you'd have to use b triple flat in ces:dim.

I still have my doubts anybody'd do that.

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David Kastrup