Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-10-13 00:27, Wols Lists wrote:
> Add "stave" to this. Actually, I would have defined a stave as a line of
> music, and a system as a group of linked staves played simultaneously.
> But that all depends on how you understand the word "line" :-)

"Stave" or "staff"?!  Are these identical?  I thought "stave" is just a 
wrong singular form of "staves", which itself is the correct plural of 
"staff"?
Merriam-Webster says nothing about these words in a musical context... :-(

Cheers,
Alexander