Why the bass clef exists in music. Take the piano, why can’t the left hand on all pieces just be in the treble clef like the right?

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Why the bass clef exists in music. Take the piano, why can’t the left hand on all pieces just be in the treble clef like the right?

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OK, say you put the left hand in treble clef with a note saying ‘play these an octave lower’. There is a notation for this.

Now middle C for the left hand is on the third space, and the C below is on the first lower ledger line. Anything below that gets into many ledger lines, which would be very bugsome.

It would technically work but would be awkward and confusing.

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