Turn with slash
A turn with a vertical slash is often taught as an alternative sign for an inverted turn, beginning below the written note. This is not historically universal: SMuFL keeps 'turn with slash' and 'inverted turn' as separate glyphs, so an edition's ornament table takes priority.
The sources do not fully agree about this sign. The explanation above says where they part company.
- Ornaments and grace notes
- Above the note
- A wave or squiggle, A slash
Do not confuse it with
This form has a stroke through a normal turn; the dedicated inverted-turn glyph is the turn shape itself inverted.
What the sources say
- Steps to Music Theory — Compound Meters
if there is a line through the middle of the turn, the turn first descends, then ascends.
- Study: Ornaments
It can be written in two ways ... either the same as a normal turn but with a vertical line through, or as an upside-down version of the normal turn.
- SMuFL — Common ornaments
ornamentTurnInverted — Inverted turn ... ornamentTurnSlash — Turn with slash