To understand what the title of this article means, that is, on the recorder, which letter is each hole, you must first know what a recorder is, what is a letter, and what is fingering. Then one can put them together.
What is a tape recorder?
The recorder is a musical instrument made of wood or plastic. It is a hollow tube of two or three sections with a mouthpiece at one end, an opening at the other end, and holes.
They come in different sizes ranging from small, louder-sounding recorders to larger, lower-sounding recorders.
Each recorder is either on the C key or on the F key, which means that the letters in each hole will be different between the two keys. For example, the lowest note for recorders in the key of C is C and the lowest note for recorders in F is F. They are both typed in the same way.
What is a letter?
“Letter” refers to the letters of the alphabet that are used in music to name notes and is called musical alphabet. The musical alphabet consists of the first seven letters of the alphabet, ABCDEF G.
There are other note names related to each of these seven letters. They are sharp notes (#) and flat notes (b). Each letter of the musical alphabet is associated with a sharp and flat note, that is, A # B # C # D # E # F # G # Ab Bb Cb Db Eb Fb Gb. A note raised by a semitone (half tone) is a sharp note. A note lowered by a semitone is a flat note. If you can visualize a piano with black and white keys, then a semitone is the key closest to the right or left of the letter; is the closest sound interval. Note that there are high notes that sound the same as flat notes, for example an A # sound is the same as a Bb sound. These notes are called enharmonic notes and they have the same pitch.
A full range of notes in an octave might look like the following two examples.
Ab A Bb BC Db D Eb EF Gb G gold
G # AA # BCC # DD # EFF # G
Each line represents the same notes.
The musical alphabet repeats over and over again in the range of the musical instrument. The recorder family has a range of about two octaves. It may vary depending on the type of recorder.
What is fingering on the recorder? that is, what letter is each hole?
When musicians press their fingertips or pads down into the holes in different settings, it is called fingering. Each fingering represents a particular note and tone of sound. Sound is created by blowing through the mouthpiece and getting an air vibration.
There are more than two octaves of fingerings or notes on the recorder.
Read below for fingering on the recorder
When you play any wind instrument, the left hand goes up.
A recorder has a thumb hole underneath and 5 single holes plus 2 double holes on top. The holes will be named as follows:
Th = thumb of the left hand
1, 2, 3 = left hand 2nd, 3rd, 4th fingers individual holes
4, 5 = right hand 2nd, 3rd fingers individual holes
6, 7 = right hand 4th 5th finger double holes
Let’s start with the recorders in the key of C.
note names: fingering
B: Thu, 1
A: Thu, 1, 2
G: Thu, 1, 2, 3
E: Thu, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Fa #: Thu, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
D1: Thu, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
C2: Th, 2 seconds of octave C
D2: 2 seconds of octave D
C1: Thursday, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
that is, all holes covered for a lower sound in the instrument.
People generally begin to learn the notes B, A, G. They play a variety of BAG pieces and exercises to aid in the process of remembering the fingerings and reading the notes on the score. Then they learn the other notes step by step with pieces and exercises to play.
To produce second-octave sounds, the thumb of the left hand covers half a hole.
Registers in the key of F have F1 as the lowest note, with all holes covered; equivalent to C1. So basically, the fingering patterns remain the same for each key recorder, but the note name changes.
Recorders on first octave notes of C = CDEFGAB
Recorders in F notes of the first octave = FGA Bb CDE
As the learning process continues, more notes / letters and fingerings are learned. A finger chart is available in the tutor books, as well as separate fingerings on the pages throughout the step-by-step learning process. To help you remember the fingerings, you should play with a teacher’s guidance, a tutorial book, or both.
Conclution
With the knowledge of what a recorder is, the lyrics and fingering are more examples of the notes and fingerings that a beginner knows, you are on your way to playing great tunes. The question of what letter for each hole begins to be answered.