#Fsharp note recorder how to#

Dolmetsch have for many years produced a simple elegant solution - a bell key. On a large recorder closing the bell with one's knee can be both hazardous and unsightly. You will find a legion of alternatives offered by helpful teachers that might work once in a blue moon, that require that you slur rather than tongue, or that force you to accept an out-of-tune note in place of the secure, well tuned high F# you will be able to play when you use the fingering recommended above. High F# is one of the missing notes in the two and a half octave range for which there is no 'true' fingering unless one is prepared to close the end of the bell of your recorder (see the chart above).

#Fsharp note recorder how to#

How To Tongue The Note F# in the Third Octave Using the standard nomenclature, the fingering for third octave F sharp, or the enharmonic equivalent G flat, is written X 1 3 4 6a 6b with the bell closed, where X indicates a pinched thumb or vented thumbhole. Below that we give the standard fingering for this note, the fingering you would use under normal circumstances.

Click on the play button in the Sibelius score to hear it. The enharmonic equivalent is G flat which has the identical fingering. The twenty sixth note we learn, F# in the third octave on the treble (alto) recorder, lies above the third leger line above the treble clef. How To Finger The Note F# in the Third Octave Home :: resources :: music theory & history :: recorder lessons :: music dictionary :: physics of musical instruments :: e-monographsĬontents :: help page :: first things first :: fingering charts :: glossary of recorder terms :: Quick C :: Quick F :: comments or queries?įirst Octave :: Second Octave :: Third Octave:į :: F#/G b :: G :: G#/A b :: A :: B b/A# :: B :: C Dolmetsch Online - Recorder Method Online Treble/Alto F sharp / G flat