# Is there more than one symbol for the tenor clef?

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**Created:** [October 3, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-more-than-one-symbol-for-the-tenor-clef/324521 "2005-10-03T03:20:55Z")\
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I’ve been going over some music theory and want to memorise the Great Staff for the sound compass of the Highland pipes. I want to put the tenor clef in for the A one octave below middle C (i.e. - the A one octave below the A below middle C). One source that I’ve got uses a symblol that looks like a big “K” for the tenor clef, but another source uses a sort of stylised “B” - like [this](http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textt/Tenorclef.html).

Are these just two different but equivalent symbols, or is there a difference between the two symbols for tenor clef?

Thanks.