Add
your own fingerings to the WFG
The
Woodwind Fingering Guide welcomes additions to its fingering charts. Several
hundred fingerings in the site have come from emails from musicians all over the
world.
To
submit fingerings to this site, follow these two steps:
- Browse
through the fingering charts on this site
and be sure that your fingering is not already there. Note
that alternate fingering charts have many fingerings
that are missing from the basic fingering charts.
- Send
a short email to
containing:
- Your
name (I'll give you credit for your submission),
- Your
email address (so that I may send you a thank you or ask
a question about your fingerings),
- The
specific instrument(s) for which the fingerings are intended,
- *The
note(s) and octave(s) the fingerings play (use
the octave numbering convention used on this site: written middle
C is C4),
- The
fingering(s),
- A
concise description of each fingering (including any of
the following: intonation, responsiveness, awkwardness, suitable
dynamics, etc.),
- The
source of the fingerings. (I will not post copies
of published fingering charts.)
You
do not need to be concerned with subscripting, superscripting, or special characters
in expressing fingerings, as long as the fingerings are clearly represented.
For
quarter tones, consider using these symbols: + for quarter-tone sharp, #+
for three-quarter-tone sharp, d for quarter-tone flat, and db for three-quarter-tone
flat.
*When
submitting multiphonics fingerings, please list all notes
that the fingering can play, even very low and high notes, and specify the notes
to within the nearest quarter tone. A good tuner makes this task fairly easy.
Be sure to give the written notes rather than the sounding notes for transposing
instruments.
