What's your hardest clef?

[Davy]

Well, i cant read Horn music...at all. just haven't learned how to yet.

other than that, Alto/Tenor Clefs are the hard ones for me

[imperialbari]

The best clef for me is the one leading to the fewest ledger lines for the given part. By that standard the brass band notation of the BBb bass way better than bass clef concert. The difference only is two or three ledger lines, but in fast low range reading that can make interpretation much harder. Also the bass clef read octave down string bass style is fine.

In orchestral notation practise the tuba is the only contrabass part written in exact concert pitch. String bass and contrabassoon both are notated one octave higher than sounding.

Klaus

[Roger Lewis]

Having done a lot of horn music with other horn players mezzo soprano clef is fine for the F transposition. At Mannes they beat us up on clefs so all are pretty good, but I still struggle a bit with Baritone clef (the OTHER F clef).

It just takes time, practice and exposure.

Roger

[imperialbari]

Alto clef. I just never have to use it for anything, so when the rare need arises it is pretty unfamiliar and uncomfortable to me. But I do not use the clef system all the time. About half the time I transpose by interval rather than by clef. It depends. This is because I started learning it from a trombonist and my wife plays horn and I play a lot of duets with her that require various transpositions. She reads by interval and my old teacher read by clef. I am all mixed up. But I can do it. Just keep that damned "viola clef" away from me!

Alto clef just is horn in D or Db depending on the key. Your day- and nightcare mum will tell you.

K, who reads by interval and transposes with the eyes, visually moving the notehead the appropriate interval

[Peach]

Bad joke alert:

Q: What's the difference between Alto Clef and Greek?

A: Some conductors can actually read Greek...

Ho ho ho...

[OldsRecording]

Last night I played trumpet with my community band. It was very disorienting, especially because 99% of my trumpet playing is in church where I read out of the hymnal, concert pitch. Luckily, there were an unusually large number of trumpets, and the director is hunting for a tuba I can use.

[tubatom91]

Movable C clefs. I just don't really like them.