Puzzle Description:

Alto clef!

#1: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on May 23, 2022 [SPOILER]

Silly me kept trying to draw a viola!

Which made it harder than it should have been ...

Still not really sure what it's supposed to be, even after the puzzle description. Is the alto clef a part of the viola? Or some particular fingering pattern or something? I don't know enough about violas to know much about then. About the closest I've gotten to anything to do with violas was learning violin for one year in grade 8 music class, but I don't even know what the difference is between a violin and a viola.

As a trombone player I had to learn the alto cleff. I was never really comfortable with it.

Alan, there's really no difference between the violin and the viola. The viola just looks bigger because the violinists heads are bigger.
That's a joke. The viola is a little bigger and plays lower so it has a different clef. The treble clef is too high for all the viola notes and the bass clef is too low, so they have an alto clef that's in between, so all the viola notes are on the same lines of music. I hope that makes sense.

It's my instrument :-)
It's the clef that we use to read music (fits perfectly between treble and bass)
I may be biased, but I think it's a wonderful instrument, though it's harder to project than violin. It's mellower and usually softer.

I played an eighth size cello, in 2nd and 3rd grade, so it really wasn't much larger than a viola. :)

Excellent puzzle! Loved the solve....well thought out! Thanks!

My sister plays the strings and I play the woodwinds. I wondered if the trombone used the alto clef. Seems like the baritone would too? or maybe not, if it's not a C instrument?

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