• The placement of the sharps from left to right on the staff begins with a down-up-down-pattern. However,
  the placement of the fifth sharp (A#)changes direction and does not move up from the previous D sharp.
  This is to avoid the use of a ledger line above the treble clef for the A sharp.

Likewise, the last sharp, the B sharp, is not placed above the ledger line in the treble clef. In order to maintain

visual symmetry for the clefs, the placement of sharps in bass clef key signatures will parallel those in the

treble clef.

Key signatures for C major and seven scales with sharps

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