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Originally Posted by QcCowboy
I will second Juji's post, with a slightly more reputable source than Wiki 
From Gardner Read (Yay! my library is out of mothballs):
In the example you posted above, the logical notation would be to have both right and left hands in the upper treble clef staff, while the low sutained note would be in bass clef, in the lower staff.
Another possibility, to which you may not have access depending on which notation package you are using, would be a single measure of "third staff" below the two pre-existing staves, in which to contain that bass clef note. |
Hm, maybe I will try to figure out how to put a temporary 3rd staff in instead although I still don't get why it's such a bad sign to use. Ok, it hasn't been used much before, but if that was the measure against using a symbol or not we never would have developed the notational system to this point to begin with, right? It just seems as though it would be harder to follow the notation if the left hand staff information all the sudden jumped to the right hand staff than to just have a single note added here and there.
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N.B. just an additional bit of notation correction, first staff of your example: you MUST place a sharp/natural on the right hand A to indicate whether it is still natural like the left hand or not.
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Really? Even though it's on a different staff? Is it because the clef is the same? I know if I had a treble and bass clef and an A on each I wouldn't have to confirm whether the accidental applies to the other staff or not, right?