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bass clef
noun
A symbol showing that the second line from the top of the staff represents the F below middle C.
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Treble clef and bass clef Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Bass clef sweat stains soaked my T-shirt.
But in the bass clef it's a whole step.
I walked out an hour later, with that bass clef on my arm.
The "bass" clef pinpoints an F on the second line from the top.
"I love that," she said quietly, pressing her forefinger to a black bass clef inked on my inner arm.
The top line is for the treble clef - or key - for high notes, and the bottom one is the bass clef for low notes.
Its notation is generally in the bass clef at actual pitch in military bands and treble clef a ninth above the actual sound in brass bands.
Modern keyboardists play from two combined staves: one for the right hand in treble clef, and one for the left in bass clef.
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He kept the sustain pedal down a fair amount, and sometimes let his bass-clef locomotive figures press on without development.
His elaboration -- a quick stream of 16th notes, with occasional bass-clef harrumphs -- hugged the song's contours like a stock car circling a track.
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