Definition of "hemidemisemiquaver" []

• Chiefly British A sixty-fourth note. (noun)

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• ""He told us that it was very important to know that the hemidemisemiquaver is the British name for the sixty-fourth note," the letter says."
• "Thus they call a double whole note a breve, a whole note a semibreve, a half note a minim, a quarter note a crotchet, an eighth note a quaver, a sixteenth note a semi-quaver, a thirty-second note a demisemiquaver, and a sixty-fourth note a hemidemisemiquaver, or semidemisemiquaver."
• "Only in the centuries-old organ world could a half-decade seem but a hemidemisemiquaver."