interval
B♭ perfect fifth
B♭lowerFupperP57 half steps
Seven half steps. Stack twelve of them and you land back where you started, give or take a comma.
On the keyboard
What is true of it
B♭ up a perfect fifth is F: 7 half steps, and 5 letters counting both ends.
Turn it upside down — put the B♭ on top — and it becomes a perfect fourth. The two numbers always add to nine, and the two sizes to twelve.
It is a perfect consonance.
Every interval on B♭
B♭ → C♭minor second · dissonanceB♭ → Cmajor second · dissonanceB♭ → D♭minor third · imperfect consonanceB♭ → Dmajor third · imperfect consonanceB♭ → E♭perfect fourth · perfect consonanceB♭ → Eaugmented fourth · dissonanceB♭ → F♭diminished fifth · dissonanceB♭ → G♭minor sixth · imperfect consonanceB♭ → Gmajor sixth · imperfect consonanceB♭ → A♭minor seventh · dissonanceB♭ → Amajor seventh · dissonance