9 systems fit on one A4 page. Check that the orientation in the print dialog matches the setting above.
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Blank staves for writing music by hand. Pick the stave size and the orientation, and as many systems as fit an A4 page are filled in automatically.
9 systems fit on one A4 page. Check that the orientation in the print dialog matches the setting above.
Blank staves for writing music by hand. Choose the stave spacing and the page fills with as many systems as fit on A4.
Wider staves mean bigger noteheads and fewer systems per page. Beginners and children do better wide; anyone comfortable already can go narrow and fit more music on a sheet.
Noteheads and stems reach well outside the five lines. Packed too closely, the stems of one system collide with the ledger lines of the next and the page becomes hard to read.
If the first bar starts directly under the clef there is nowhere to write. Turning the clef on reserves that space and divides bars after it.
The small size has 1.6mm between lines, giving a stave 7.5mm tall — close to the 7mm or so used in published scores. Medium is 2.0mm and 9.1mm; large is 2.6mm and 11.5mm, the size of a children's tutor book. On portrait A4 with the header on, that is 7, 9 or 11 systems per page.
The treble clef is not a drawing but a Unicode symbol set in whatever font the device has. It therefore looks slightly different from device to device, and on an old device without the glyph it can appear as a box. If that happens, turn the clef off and draw it by hand.
A system is divided evenly by the number you choose. Writing by hand, a bar with many notes can get cramped, so for busy music choose fewer bars. Barlines stand at the right edge of each bar, and with the clef on the division starts after the space reserved for it.
Grid and ruled paper use pale lines so handwriting stands out; staff paper cannot. Notes sit on the lines and between them, and faint lines make it unclear which line a note is on. So the staves and barlines are 0.22mm wide in a dark slate grey. They survive a photocopier, so print one sheet and copy the rest.
At the medium size with the clef on, 10mm is reserved for the clef and the remaining 176mm is divided by the bar count: four bars give 44mm each, six give 29mm. In landscape 263mm is divided, so four bars give 66mm. With more than eight notes to a bar, 44mm gets cramped — choose fewer bars or go landscape, where the medium size fits six systems with the header on.
There is no right answer. Four is comfortable; for dense music, two or three leaves more room. Set it to zero for plain staves with no barlines.
Only the treble clef is drawn. For bass clef or a grand staff, turn the clef off and draw it yourself.
Turn on the header and they appear at the top, costing roughly one system.
Longer systems with more room per bar, at the cost of fewer systems and more sheets.
This is paper for handwriting, so the gap is 2.2 times the stave height. It is also where lyrics and dynamics go. To fit more, choose the small size.
Three fields — title, composer and name — occupy the top 18mm. Turn it off and one more system fits.
No. Only five-line staves are drawn. Guitar tab has six lines, so it does not fit; for a piano grand staff, pair two systems and draw the brace by hand.
The staves are a background pattern, and the page tells the browser to print backgrounds regardless. If the paper still comes out blank, the browser ignored that: turn on background graphics in the print dialog or use another browser. A clef with no lines under it is almost always this.