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Woodwind Fingerings

A wall chart of first-octave fingerings for flute, alto saxophone, descant recorder and clarinet in B flat, plus how each instrument's register changes work and what every woodwind player has to know.

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What's inside

  • How to read a fingering diagram, and the one ladder shared by three instruments
  • First-octave fingerings for flute, alto saxophone and descant recorder, note by note
  • The clarinet in B flat's chalumeau, throat tones and register key, set out separately
  • How register changes work above the first octave on each instrument
  • What every woodwind player has to know — covering completely, keeping fingers close, and that alternative fingerings exist
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