Editing Recorder (musical instrument) (section)

===German fingering===
In the early twentieth century, [[Peter Harlan]] developed a recorder with apparently simpler fingering, called German fingering. A recorder designed for German fingering has a hole five that is smaller than hole four, whereas baroque and neo-baroque recorders have a hole four that is smaller than hole five. The immediate difference in fingering is for F (soprano) or B{{Music|b}} (alto), which on a neo-baroque instrument must be fingered 0 123 4–67. With German fingering, this becomes a simpler 0 123 4 – – –. Unfortunately, however, this makes many other chromatic notes too out of tune to be usable.<ref name=ARJtechnique>A Rowland-Jones, ''Recorder Technique'' {{ISBN|0-907908-75-6}}</ref> German fingering became popular in Europe, especially Germany, in the 1930s, but rapidly became obsolete in the 1950s as people began to treat the recorder more seriously, and the limitations of German fingering became more widely appreciated.<ref>{{cite book|first=Edgar|last=Hunt|author-link=Edgar Hunt|title=The Recorder and Its Music|publisher=Eulenburg|location=London|year=1977|isbn=9780903873055}}{{Page needed|date=February 2019}}</ref> Recorders with German fingering are today manufactured exclusively for educational purposes.