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In musical language, this symbol ♯ is called a sharp. It may look like a hashtag, but it’s slightly different.

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In musical language, this symbol ♯ is called a sharp. It may look like a hashtag, but it’s slightly different.

You see a sharp in front of the F. If there is a sharp in front of a note, you should not play the white key, but the black key to the right of that white key. The black key you must play is called the F sharp. We write F♯, but we say F sharp.