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Symbol on cover of 2022 RCM Piano series[edit]

Hi! I understand that the musical symbol depicted on the left of this cover is a C clef. What is the one depicted on this cover? Thanks, 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 02:42, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lower down the C clef article it says that "the C-clef was formerly written in a more angular way, sometimes still used, or, more often, as a simplified K-shape when writing the clef by hand". Could this be an example of that more angular style? --Viennese Waltz 05:55, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This page is a fairly comprehensive list of music symbols. It has a variety of K-style clefs to peruse. --Jayron 32 14:13, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like some kind of machined part to me, with slots to reduce the weight and struts in directions where it needs strength. (The V-shape looks like a weak point, to be fair.) Is there any possibility it's showing some kind of metal frame of a large piano? Looking at images they don't look the same, though. Blythwood (talk) 01:41, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A belated suggestion, EpicPupper. Googling the book series, all the books in it for which I could find images use either one or the other of the two shapes you have linked (though I may have missed some). My impression is that they are part of decoratively carved wood sound apertures on pianos (doubtless there's a name for these). I wonder if it's just chance that one of them was carved as a C-clef, and there was no intention by either the piano manufacturer or by the publisher that the other one should also be a clef? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.209.121.96 (talk) 18:10, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]