Original sentence: It is then only necessary to use seven clefs, so that any written note can take any of the seven different names (Q, M, L, T, S, X, 4).Students in French and Belgian conservatories and music schools, amongst others, are thoroughly d
Edited sentence: For some reason, the 3rd line F clef (the baritone clef) is preferred in the French and Belgian pedagogical tradition to the equivalent 5th line C clef.It is then only necessary to use seven clefs, so that any written note can take any of the seven different names (A, B, C, D, E, F, G).Students in French and Belgian conservatories and music schools, amongst others, are thoroughly drilled in this kind of exercise and solfeggios meant for use in those institutions are about the only scores where one will find nowadays a 1st line or 2nd line C clef or a 3rd line F clef.This may have something to do with the fact that very early medieval scores had only 4 line staffs, hence possibly the avoidance in some particularly traditionalist circles to write a clef on the 5th line, though this is arguably more likely due to the visual impact of the fact that the 3rd line F clef is contained entirely within the staff whilst half of the 5th line C clef protrudes above it