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Musical note

B2

  • B2
  • 123.47 Hz
  • MIDI 47

B2 is MIDI note 47, sounding at 123.471 Hz in equal temperament with A4 = 440 Hz. Its wavelength in air is 2.778 m, and it sits in octave 2.

Pitch

Scientific pitch notationB2
MIDI note number47
Frequency123.4708 Hzequal temperament, A4 = 440 Hz, a convention rather than a constant
Pitch classB (11)
Octave2

As a sound wave

Wavelength in air2.778 mat 343 m/s, dry air at 20 °C
Period8.0991 ms
Frequency one octave up246.942 Hzdoubling the frequency
Frequency one octave down61.735 Hz
AudibleYeshuman hearing runs roughly 20 Hz to 20 kHz and narrows with age

Intervals from here

Octave belowB1 · 61.74 Hz
Perfect fifth belowE2 · 82.41 Hz
Semitone belowA#2 · 116.54 Hz
Semitone aboveC3 · 130.81 Hz
Major third aboveD#3 · 155.56 Hz
Perfect fifth aboveF#3 · 185 Hz
Octave aboveB3 · 246.94 Hz

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