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.
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