I would say that this was a ridiculously stupid campaign on your part.
Language!
The alto clef is completely essential to writing for instruments whose effective ranges straddle middle C.
-- David W. Fenton
I could counter with a long list of instruments whose effective ranges do precisely that, yet do not use (and in most cases never have used) the alto clef. But I think it will be more, um, effective simply to point out that the only modern instrument that uses the alto clef is the viola, so that by your reasoning it may be deduced that the viola must be the only modern instrument whose effective range straddles middle C. Since that is manifestly not the case, your assertion is falsified.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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