The bass clef, an F-clef, is used by cello, double bass, bass guitar, bassoon, contrabassoon, bass recorder, trombone, tuba, timpani and some other players. It’s also used in the second lowest line in ...

The Grand Staff. Treble Clef on upper staff; Bass Clef on lower staff (image: wikipedia) The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I ...

The alto clef places middle C on the middle line of the stave. The alto clef is most often used for viola music and sometimes alto trombone. This is what the alto clef looks like: ...

Sabrina Lloyd is a versatile musician who has been playing the viola in the Symphony Orchestra since 2012 as both a section violist and subbing as an assistant principal violist. Compared to the ...

Even the violist's pin-up of choice was cruel to the viola. In fact, he had the following to say about anyone unfortunate enough to play one: "Viola players were always taken from among the refuse of ...

This knowledge of treble clef tugged at the laziness hidden in sixth-grade Kiara, and as a result, learning alto clef — the clef that violas and a handful of other instruments used — was not ...