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Musical note

B4

  • B4
  • 493.88 Hz
  • MIDI 71

B4 is MIDI note 71, sounding at 493.883 Hz in equal temperament with A4 = 440 Hz. Its wavelength in air is 0.6945 m, and it sits in octave 4.

Pitch

Scientific pitch notationB4
MIDI note number71
Frequency493.8833 Hzequal temperament, A4 = 440 Hz, a convention rather than a constant
Pitch classB (11)
Octave4

As a sound wave

Wavelength in air0.6945 mat 343 m/s, dry air at 20 °C
Period2.0248 ms
Frequency one octave up987.767 Hzdoubling the frequency
Frequency one octave down246.942 Hz
AudibleYeshuman hearing runs roughly 20 Hz to 20 kHz and narrows with age

Intervals from here

Octave belowB3 · 246.94 Hz
Perfect fifth belowE4 · 329.63 Hz
Semitone belowA#4 · 466.16 Hz
Semitone aboveC5 · 523.25 Hz
Major third aboveD#5 · 622.25 Hz
Perfect fifth aboveF#5 · 739.99 Hz
Octave aboveB5 · 987.77 Hz

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