Unusual flat symbol?
Etched onto Dmitri Shostakovich's gravestone is his famous "DSCH" motif in musical notation, but I'm perplexed: The flat symbol preceding the E5 is not what I know of to be a flat symbol... What is that?
Entire image as it appears on Shostakovich's memorial on findagrave.com:
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Is it just a trick of the photograph? I can sort of see the vertical stroke of the b. Or perhaps it got knocked off!
That looks like a regular flat. If you look closely the stem still goes up. The stomach of the flat just goes broader than a space. If the lithographer was my student I would make him write that flat again.
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