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A filled oval with two flags or two beams, a quarter of a beat.
Also known as: Semiquaver, Note with two flags
Two flags halve an eighth note again. The system continues indefinitely — each additional flag or beam halves the duration — so counting flags is the whole skill.
A solid filled oval with a vertical stem carrying two curved flags stacked down its side, or joined to its neighbours by two parallel beams.
Adjacent values in the halving series.