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Treble clef inconsistency #401

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found a small conceptual inconsistency with an icon on openmoji:

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Note that the description (from Emojipedia) speaks of “five horizontal lines” that are missing. Not sure if the description comes from some official Unicode “spec”

Wikipedia says a G-clef is a Treble clef only if its drawn around the 2nd line on the pentagram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols#Clefs

The spiral of a G clef (not a point on the spiral, but the center around which the spiral is drawn) shows where the G above middle C is located on the staff. A G clef with the spiral centered on the second line of the staff is called treble clef.[2] The treble clef is the most commonly encountered clef in modern notation.

Emojipedia points to this info link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef#Treble_clef

The only G-clef still in use is the treble clef, with the G-clef placed on the second line. This is the most common clef in use and is generally the first clef learned by music students.[2] For this reason, the terms "G-clef" and "treble clef" are often seen as synonymous

Which seems to say G-clef (which is a superset concept) and Treble clef (placed on the 2nd line) are pretty much treated as synonymous since other clefs aren’t used anymore

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