Staff (music)

Musical notation to represent the pitch

In Western musical notation, the staff (UK usually stave); (plural: staves), also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of horizontal lines (usually five) with spaces between them, that each represent a different musical pitch. However, in the case of a percussion staff, there may be from one to five (or perhaps more) lines which denote different percussion instruments, as may the spaces in between. In guitar tab there are up to six (or perhaps more) lines denoting different strings.

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