Posted by Art H on March 09, 2004 at 00:32:26:
In Reply to: Double-flat (bb) posted by Accidental on March 08, 2004 at 14:04:56:
When the note was in the original piano score it probably was written as part of a chord.
It may have been too crowded to write it as an A-natural, and it may have been more legible as a B-double-flat. Or it may have been transposed by someone with a mind like a computer. Blame the copyist.