baroque flute

C#5

Impedance

Acoustic and Fingering Schematic a covered tone hole or key pressed an uncovered tone hole or key not pressed a partly covered hole Details in fingering legend. Non-specialist introduction to acoustic impedance Non-specialist introduction to flute acoustics

This fingering has no noticeable cross fingering. Because of the filtering effect of the series of open tone holes, however, only the first two minima are harmonic, and so the third harmonic in the sound spectrum is weak. There is an impedance minimum to support the fourth harmonic however, and so this timbre is relatively bright. Unlike normal flutes, this fingering will not play C#6 accurately, because this minimum is already beyond the harmonic region.

Sound

Sound spectrum of a baroque flute played using fingering for C#5 with key.

Sound Clip

You can hear C#5 played by Matthew Ridley.