PHILIPPE BOLTON
HANDMADE RECORDERS & FLAGEOLETS
A CHART OF BLANKENBURGH'S RECORDER FINGERINGS
This chart contains the fingerings described by Blankenburgh in his text bound with van Eyck's FlUYTEN LUST-HOF. They differ from other 17th century fingering charts by the use of half holes instead of most of the fork fingerings, and by the distinction made between certain sharps and flats. The fingering for high b is similar to the one given by Ganassi, but high c is fingered as in Mersenne.
RECORDER IN C
1st OCTAVE FINGERINGS (low notes)
class="small-centre"2nd OCTAVE FINGERINGS
3rd OCTAVE FINGERINGS
● = closed ○ = open ø = partially closed
The fingering given for B2 differs from the one in other 17th century charts for this note. It is in fact similar the one given by Ganassi in 1535.
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