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William Hodgson

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  1. It's just a question of knowing music conventions regarding clefs - The clef used by any instrument is designed/chosen so that most notes played by that instrument span 5 stave lines plus 2 ledger lines above and below (try reading a piccolo part with notes written at actual pitch!!!) It is just a co-incidence that soprano and tenor voices span roughly the same number of lines - if you rename the 'treble clef' more correctly as the G clef where the final curve on the spiral defines the note on the 2nd stave line as G then the unadorned clef specifies G4 - Put 8va on the lowest point of the symbol and it now specifies G3 - put 8va on the highest point and it now specifies G5 - so a piccolo flute reading that note would sound G5 - a tenor reading the same note (you have to mentally put that 8va signal in) would sound G3 - hence the 1st ledger line above the stave can be A4 (for tenor) or A5 (for soprano) or A6 (for piccolo flute) depending on the pitch signal attached to the (commonly called) treble clef. It would be helpful if music printers followed this convention. Cheers TrombaCantare aka William Hodgson
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