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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There are only so many notes or pitches that can fit into the treble clef. You’ve got the five lines and four spaces of the stave, then of course there are some that go a bit above or below the stave. If you want to write a note that’s quite far below the stave you have to use lots of ledger lines and the more of those there are, the harder it is to read the music. So we have another clef to make space for all those lower down pitches.

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