Upscale

Oh! There's no place to leave an answer here! I don't know diddly about crosshare, but I see the [meta] tag is missing.

Beautifully constructed ... with a nostalgic throwback to my days in the elementary school music room.

Good catch, hoover! I was so impressed by Jay's cleverness that I totally missed that crucial step.

Oopsie

Same problem as hoover.

Had to google for it because I remember almost nothing — practically zip — from my very limited education in music. Thanks, Jay!

Great puzzle - thanks, Jay. As Tom said, it took me back to my grade school days. All my musical "knowledge" comes from learning to play the flutophone

Oh... lovely but... I dunno... I just dunno. Going from thinking about "G CLEF" to settling on STAFF seems kind of ... anti-climatic.

But I got to say I loved the grid, and I loved the clues and it was masterfully done and the music themes where a coup-de-grace.

Great construction, Jay!

I guessed the answer and then went back to solve it. Nicely constructed!

Nice, but perhaps too easy to guess based on the title and prompt without solving the puzzle

Takes me back to my high school band days. Nice one, Jay.

While we think we did fine we really feel that we deserve fudge!

My piano lessons taught me something.

Thanks, Jay!

Got the mechanism fairly quickly but then had a mental block over STAFF, just couldn't remember the term. After a few wrong tried, I asked my non-solver wife, who's my meta lifeline, and she came up with the answer right away after I outlined the steps. Clever - without being complex (a relief after viewing this week's MGWCC).

Credit to Mom, who was a piano teacher, for getting this one. Wonder if "Every Good Boy Does Fine / Good Boys Do Fine Always" have changed over the years? Thanks for the puzzle, Jay - you are always upscale and upbeat!

That was the mnemonic I learned when I was taking piano lessons in elementary school. But I can't remember the one for the bass clef!

Very nice! Or should I say “ every good boy does fine”?? Thank you!!

Remembered my old trumpet lessons!

"Fixing A Hole", "I've Just Seen A Face", "For Emily Whenever I May Find Her" - reasons enough to rate this one 5 Stars!

It goes before Descartes? brill. Was that an original? cuz I love it.

I guessed “staff” early on, from the title and all the music-theme entries, but needed the nudge because all I was seeing was the weird patterns of same letters (g’s and o’s in googoodolls, e’s and s’s in tresses…). Fun puzzle!

Wow. Not a music guy, but familiar with EGBDF mnemonic and saw it in the themers easily without nudges. But then my lack of musical knowledge caught up to me. Guessed Scale, guessed score, before getting staff. Difficulty level: 2.