(Note - there are always a few other recorder fingerings but they are very rarely seen in common instruments.)įinally, note that the lowest note of the C Soprano recorder corresponds to the "alto" ocarina (asian models).īobbie wrote:What does determine fingering is whether the recorder fingers as "Baroque" (sometimes called English) or "German" (sometimes called Modern). Most the fingering is the same between the two schemes but a few notes are fingered differently. What does determine fingering is whether the recorder fingers as "Baroque" (sometimes called English) or "German" (sometimes called Modern). Note that fingering is essentially the same on all these recorders! The key of the recorder does not determine its fingering. I play music written for C soprano on my alto and it sounds fine. So when learning to play recorder, you either learn to read music written for the C recorder or the F recorder.Īs pandorado100 pointed out, you can play the music with incorrect reading and it works fine. Put another way, the lowest note on Soprano is C5, the lowest note on the tenor is C4, the lowest note on the sopranino is F5, and the lowest note on your alto is F4.
Sopranino and alto have the same octave-apart relationship but are in F. Soprano recorder is in C, tenor is in C one octave lower. Tenrai 8h Pendant soprano A (wants to play in B) STL Destiny Alto C (can't really play since it's super uncomfortable, might sell) MasterTar (etsy) Song of the Sea in A (Alto A) MasterTar (etsy) Song of the Sea in D (Soprano D) Imperial City Ocarina Green Triple Bass C Fiehn Alto F10 (can't really play since my pinky finger is too small) EWA Soprano B2 (plays in A for some reason, might sell) 3D printed Alto C Mountain Ocarina clone Current Ocarina Collection (43, 35 excluding 3D printed ones): -3D printed Sopranino C So actually I was transposing it, right? I don't know if I did this correctly in terms of music theory, but it sounded quite nice to my untrained ears, of course the pitch was different from when I play this tune on a (soprano) ocarina.Ĭan you tell me if it is actually possible to transpose songs on (any) recorders the same way it is possible with ocarinas? Or was I just messing around with it? And is it a common thing to do?īy the way, all the recorders I'm talking about use the Baroque fingering system. When I played one of my favourite tunes I almost automatically started to use the soprano recorder fingering on the alto recorder.
I'm trying to learn some tunes on the alto recorder and I'm slowly getting used to the differences. On the alto recorder the fingering is different from what I am used to from my earlier soprano recorder playing (which plays the same as the tenor recorder). And I tried to learn the scales on my mum's old alto recorder. I recently bought a tenor recorder made of plastic and messed around with it a bit. I just stumbled across a thing I wanted to share with you.
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