The alto clef is sort of like two back-to-front Cs, placed either side of the pitch it’s indicating, which is the middle line of the stave: the middle C. Alto clef. Picture: Alamy A similar clef is ...

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: ...

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 ...