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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is alto clef more difficult to learn than to read treble clef? [/quote]

I'm the one who posted above about the alto clef. I am far from an expert! But I don't think it's an issue so much of difficulty, as of uniqueness. Treble and bass clef are used across many instruments. Alto isn't. So a kid who begins their music-reading experience with alto and then switches to nearly any other instrument at another point in time will have to re-learn how to read the sheet music-- it won't just be intuitive-- and that could be sort of a pain, or at least it was for my fourth grader when she began viola after a few years of piano lessons. A frustration we hadn't anticipated and could have avoided if she hadn't chosen that instrument. [/quote]

Alto isn’t any easier or harder — just a difference of where middle C lives (alto is actually the most logical in my opinion because middle c is in the middle!). Once you advance in viola you also need to read treble and switch between the two.

— violist who started on violin but loved the viola so much more [/quote]

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