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B-flat1/18/2024 ![]() The experiment was described back in the 1940s. It turned out the culprit was B flat, one octave below middle C. Various musicians - string, percussive and brass - were brought to Oscar to play various notes. Naturally, with so many scientists in residence, an experiment was quickly devised to see how to get Oscar to bellow again. Oscar, who'd been in the museum on 81st Street, suddenly began to bellow. During rehearsal, somebody played a note that upset a resident live alligator named Oscar. Here are a few of them.ĭuring World War II, the New York Philharmonic was visiting the American Museum of Natural History. See B (musical note) and Musical note#Note names and their history for explanations.For reasons that remain mostly mysterious, the note we call B flat does the oddest things. Natural B is called B by Swedish jazz and pop musicians, but still denoted H in classical music. Since the 1990s, B-flat is often denoted Bb or "Bess" instead of B in Swedish music textbooks. In Germany, Russia, Poland and Scandinavia, this pitch is designated B, with 'H' used to designate the B- natural. While orchestras tune to an A provided by the oboist, wind ensembles usually tune to a B-flat provided by a tuba, horn, or clarinet. See pitch (music) for a discussion of historical variations in frequency. When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of the B ♭ above middle C is approximately 466.164 Hz. B-flat is also enharmonic to C (C-double flat). It lies a diatonic semitone above A and a chromatic semitone below B, thus being enharmonic to A ♯, even though in some musical tunings, B ♭ will have a different sounding pitch than A ♯. B ♭ ( B-flat), or, in some European countries, B, is the eleventh step of the Western chromatic scale (starting from C).
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