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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The C clef positioned to indicate that the fourth line from the bottom of a staff represents the pitch of middle C.
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- noun music a musical
clef that is higher than thebass clef and lower than thealto clef where the A that is athird lower thanmiddle C is the center line
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a clef that puts middle C on the fourth line of the staff; used for writing music for bassoons or cellos or tenor horns
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