Can anyone identify the symbol circled in the image below? It's from a piece of piano music.
Thank you very much :)
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Sign up to join this communityOrdinary quarter rest in a somewhat uncommon but not unheard-of style. French publisher?
A B H C
or A Bb B C
?? We all like to be different in some way or other ;-)
Jan 28, 2015 at 9:38
As there are 4 beats in the bar, it has to be a crotchet (quarter note ) rest. It's probably easier to draw than the regular one, but there is an alternative which is the opposite way round to the quaver rest, again, easier to write.