baroque flute

F6

Conventional Fingering

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 is a weakly cross fingered version of the A4 fingering: it resembles a little that for E6 and F6. This cross fingering brings the fourth minimum of A4 down to (near) the pitch of the F6. We are approaching the top of the range of the baroque instrument, and this relatively weak minimum is not easy to play. 'Half-holing' (covering half of the hole of) RH2 increases the depth of the minimum and thus improves the playability, but that fingering plays flat.

Sound

Sound spectrum of a baroque flute played using fingering for F6.

Sound Clip

You can hear F6 played by Matthew Ridley.

Impedance

Fingering a key depressed a key not depressed a part of the mechanism that is not normally touched Details in fingering legend. Acoustic schematic a closed tone hole an open tone hole Non-specialist introduction to acoustic impedance Non-specialist introduction to flute acoustics

Sound

Sound spectrum of a baroque flute played using alternative fingering for F6.

Sound Clip

You can hear F6 played with alternative fingering by Matthew Ridley.