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From: cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca (llizard)
Subject: Re: Frogstein and Birdstein, Musical Tails
Date: 1997/05/09
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In article <msg986.thr-7d910c00.a2c2c@shadolands.net>,
Viellen@shadolands.net (Viellen) wrote:
> 
> petecasso@aol.com,UseNet writes:
> >Although I play the piano, I don't know what an alto clef is, you can
> >tell that my days of taking piano lessons are long, long, long gone.
> >I just did a search in Encarta and Microsoft Bookshelf, I found the
> >term, but I found no picture. Makes me wonder, did you or have you (just
> >studied music? rhetorical question). By the time you explain what it have
> >is you might drawn it already.
> >
> >                      Draculstein!
> >                     Don't play with your pitchfork! 
> >                    Study music theory!
> >                   /
> >                 _==_
> >                 <" )
> >                 <( <)
> >    ,,             ^^
> >   ( "> w 
> >  ,(> )>|  http://members.aol.com/petecasso         
[snip]
> the alto clef is not used for the piano.  It's used for viola, some
> choral arangements, and other various alto instruments.  Though, you
> may be reffering to a bass clef.  

No, I was indeed referring to the alto clef. Pete had a bass clef in his
drawing.

One of my colleagues recently likened reading the alto clef to being
able to speak and read Urdu if English were your first language.  :^D

And to answer the rhetorical question, some of my colleagues would say
categorically that I have not studied music at all, just because I
insist on playing the viola. (And yes, I believe that is yet another
viola joke. If you search the web, you can find pages and pages of viola
jokes.)

Using my web ferret, I found this picture of an alto clef at:

http://hookomo.aloha.net/~khigaki/keynote/ac_drill.htm
Here are some alto clefs (middle C is in the centre line)

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And here are two one line alto clefs:

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 K


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