For what it's worth (probably not much):
I have seen a modern edition of a baroque sonata (I believe
for a flute and B.C. -- I haven't seen the autograph, and
unfortunately didn't keep the score) in which the problem of
choice between too wide ledgers and frequent clef changes is
`solved' ( at least for professionals of baroque style):
whereever the harpsicord notes tend to go off the staff
awkwardly, the clef is changed to a so-called `old C clef' ,
i.e. a c clef (viola) ON WHATEVER LINE IS APPROPRIATE for that
case. That means you have 4 extra choices for a clef! Looks
practically unreadable to me, at least for sightreading;
but apparently baroque players were quite used to that.
Isn't that interesting?
ccn.
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