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THE GREAT STAFF



What Is A Great Staff?
A great staff is also known as a grand staff. It has eleven lines and ten spaces. E.g.


The great staff or the grand staff has eleven lines and ten spaces because it consists of two different staves with five lines and four spaces each. The treble staff and the bass staff are the two staves used to make a great staff and these two staves are joined together with a brace. E. G. 





There is a broken line in a great staff and the broken line in a great staff is called the "middle C'.

In a great staff or in music, the treble staff is used for notating high pitched sound while the bass staff is used to notate low pitched sound.

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