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Originally Posted by Mandobart
Evidently there is/was a tenor clef as well, which I didn't know until I read the wiki article.
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Strictly speaking, guitar music is written in a "tenor G clef". It's a G clef because it indicates the G line by circling it.
"Treble" means high register, so the standard G clef is most often used to indicate G4 (above middle C) as in piano left hand, violin, flute, soprano voice and so on. Guitar music lowers the stave into tenor register.
Of course the clef usually known as "tenor clef" is a "C" clef, marking the line through the centre (4th line up) as middle C. (The alto C clef does the same thing, marking the middle line.)
In guitar music, middle C is the space above the centre line, so the register of guitar notation is midway between alto and tenor clef; but it's known as a tenor clef when used in vocal music - usually marked with a little "8" on the bottom to indicate the octave transposition. (Guitar clefs rarely do this now.)