Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: stave/staff confusion From the Music Questions forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   stave/staff confusion Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 172.149.4.x posted: 8/3/2003 at 5:31:13 PM ET When is it called a stave, and when is it called a staff? Is staves the plural of staff? I've seen stave used in the singular form though... so I was just wondering. Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 66.168.69.x posted: 8/3/2003 at 9:57:16 PM ET what insterment are you playing??? Taciturn Registered User Registered: 8/3/2003 posted: 8/4/2003 at 9:09:41 PM ET it depends on the instrument? In that case, violin, viola, cello, bass, piano Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 68.96.8.x posted: 9/16/2003 at 9:46:24 PM ET staves is the plural form of staff...it doesn't depend on the instrument. Taciturn Registered User Registered: 8/3/2003 posted: 9/16/2003 at 11:54:46 PM ET I didn't think it did. And whoa, this post is ancient. Thanks for the info. though. I just swear I've heard stave used as singular though. Oh well! Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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