Elaine complained: she was playing an orchestral piece whose viola part was written in a strange clef: the K clef. K was the first letter of the name of the company that was sponsoring the concert. The notes went way off the staff. Dang sponsors.
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[Inspired perhaps by thinking about Subsidized Time in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, in which years are named for corporate sponsors: Year of the Whopper, Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad, &c.]
Monday, October 23, 2023
K clef
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Seeing this reference to your dream-created K clef in print makes me think that you might have been thinking about the alto clef, which is sometimes crudely written to appear like the letter K. It is also called a "C clef" because it can be used to "point" at any line of the staff where you want middle C to be. And we do call the treble clef a "G clef" because the circle in the middle shows us where on the staff G would be. (It can be moved too. And the bass clef, which shows us where the F below middle C is by means of two dots, can be moved as well, but this is too much information for a comment on this post.)
Doesn't Keurig make things called K cups to put in their coffee makers?
I just now wondered if the K might be inspired by Jimmy John’s sponsorship of a concert or two a few years back.
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