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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort

B, in Music, is the seventh degree of the diatonic scale of C. According to the tempered system of tuning, the ratio of B to the fundamental note C is \frac{8}{7}. In the German notation, B is called H, while B flat is called simply B. See MUSIC.

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