clefs

A single staff can switch between different clefs, if you ever want to redfine what lines mean what notes.

Reading the viola clef is strictly less difficult than reading the transposing clefs used by brass and winds.

Someone else mentioned adding another line atop the treble clef and then using the 6-line staff for both clefs.

In order to cover the range of pitches, different clefs are used to make the notation easier to read.

Now all clefs are identical two-octave portions, instead of getting shifted more and more as they retreat from middle C.

That's right, it would consist of drawing treble clefs, memorizing note positions, and transposing music.

There’s no need to count lines, and treble and bass clefs are the same.

A note a day, say, will get you pretty far - scores almost always change clefs before going 14 semitones above/below the staff.

It doesn't really distinguish between clefs or hand placement, and did the relative placement thing worked better when things were closer together anyway.

The perfect circles and even lines seriously clash with the naturally drawn clefs.

The same clefs and staffs are used for every instrument, so you don't have the compatibility issues that this piano sheet music would have.

But for some reason we've been beaten into thinking in terms of these two clefs.

It's different in that the visual shapes stay constant in all "clefs" as well as up and down the pentagram.

Piano music is written in two clefs, bass and treble, centered around "middle C".

But if you're reading intervals and translating to "play the root, then the third, while sustaining the fifth", then different clefs are just like reading in different key signatures.

I'm not so sure "it wouldn't be too hard to come up with better..." I read about a thing called hummingbird notation - uses the same clefs, but changes noteheads, staffs and sharps/flats.

Clefs are different for a reason-- they attempt to keep most notes on the staff.