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tenorsaxist
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what is the thing called when playing bassoon music that lowers the really high notes so they are closer to the staff? it looks like an odd sumbol, like a different cleff!
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contra448
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It is the tenor clef. Middle C is on the 4th line up. (Not to be confused with alto clef - C on middle line - which is used by the viola. I have come across this once or twice for the bassoon).
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tenorsax13
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Yup that would be the tenor clef. It is used by bassoon and trombone i think, and in cello music I see it quite often.
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Drew
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Sometimes I think modern publishers use the tenor clef as an economical device rather than anything else - it allows them to save paper in a way, since if you were to write those high notes in the bass clef you'd have to space the music clefs much farther apart! (Just my beef since I always hate it when I'm unexpectedly confronted with tenor clef for only a few notes in a piece.)
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zoom
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One further thing ... the alto & tenor clefs are just two of the five "C clef" options. (I'm pretty sure they're the only two still in wide use.) Anyhow, in some early music scores you'll see the others so it's probably worth having at least a passing familiarity with them. Ditto "French Violin Clef".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef
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