: Staff, grand staff, staves? what does it mean? I've understood that staff is one system of 5 note lines and the term for both systems (l. & r. h. keyboard) is grand staff, is this correct? ... while in a full score would

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Your understanding of staff and grand staff are correct.

And while full score is a collection of various staves, we often group these several staves of concurrent music together with the name "system." A system is just the collection of all instruments playing at a given time; in an orchestral score, a system may take up an entire page, but on a piano score, there could be several systems of music on a single page.