Musical Notes

How to display musical notes without images. (ASCII)

The quarter note: ♩ which is ♩

The eighth note: ♪ which is ♪

The single bar note: ♫ which is & #9835;

The double bar note: ♬ which is & #9836;

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  1. I have changed my Keyboard language, from Us English, to Us-Englsh-International.
    To avoid trying to memorize all these codes.

    And it is really cool, just press right ALT, and go thruogh the keyboard, from the numbers down, and you can get many of these ASCII characters, and with a combination of other keys, you can get some more.

    However, now my keyboard language doesn’t do all these musical notes characters.
    Anybody know how to do them in US-English-International???

  2. Shaunak says:

    On systems with codepage 437 [US English] its #266A and #266B [Type the chars '266A' in wordpad/word and press CTRL+X]

  3. Billy says:

    Just testing it out.

    & #9835

  4. Tadpole256 says:

    This is a very useful tip. I have been using musical notes in some work lately, just as decorations, but I have been using graphics. Being able to simply use ASCII keeps my work much smaller and simpler!

  5. A bit of pendanticness: these characters aren’t ASCII, they are Unicode. ASCII ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii ) is oldskool and doesn’t include all that many characters. Unicode, on the other hand, has all sorts of cool stuff like ? and ?, as well as practical stuff like Japanese, Chinese, Cyrilic, musical symbols and mathematical symbols.

  6. Georgina says:

    So basicly just press alt then the number? I managed to do it with my pc keyboard. Any advice how to do it for laptop?

  7. Ronnies says:

    Nice.. exactly what I’m looking for.. ?

    Thanks =)

  8. Zakikay says:

    Is there any other music notes that can be done through pressing “ALT+number” ???

  9. salena says:

    Im trying all these and none of them work!!! Im on a laptop, can someone please HELP me!! I just want to be able to do the music notes!! Thankx!

  10. CallMeCal says:

    OR you can just bookmark this page and copy/paste them from above. Works especially well if you’re on a Mac and thus have no “Alt” key.

  11. Jeff says:

    The “double bar note” is called a “sixteenth note.”

  12. X-me says:

    If you use the Character Map in your All programs/Accessories/System tools, some of these can be found there. As well as a host of others, such as methmatical symbols, foreign characters, etc.

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