Editing Recorder (musical instrument) (section)

===<span class="anchor" id="Fingering"></span>Basic fingering===
{{See also|Fingering (music)}}

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! colspan="35" |Recorder fingerings (English): Lowest note through the nominal range of 2 octaves and a sixth<ref>[https://www.dolmetsch.com/efingeringchart.pdf "Baroque/English Recorder Fingering Chart"], Dolmetsch</ref>
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! colspan="2" | Note
! colspan="10" style="background:#f8eaba;" | First octave
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! colspan="10" style="background:#f8eaba;" | Second octave
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! colspan="11" style="background:#f8eaba;" | Third octave
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! Tuned<ref group=n>See the section [[#Types of recorder|Types of recorder]] concerning recorders in C or in F.</ref><br />in F
! Tuned<br />in C
! Hole<br />0
!&nbsp;
! Hole<br />1
! Hole<br />2
! Hole<br />3
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! Hole<br />4
! Hole<br />5
! Hole<br />6
! Hole<br />7
!&nbsp;
! Hole<br />0
!&nbsp;
! Hole<br />1
! Hole<br />2
! Hole<br />3
!&nbsp;
! Hole<br />4
! Hole<br />5
! Hole<br />6
! Hole<br />7
!&nbsp;
! Hole<br />0
!&nbsp;
! Hole<br />1
! Hole<br />2
! Hole<br />3
!&nbsp;
! Hole<br />4
! Hole<br />5
! Hole<br />6
! Hole<br />7
!End hole<br />8
|- style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"
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| F{{Music|#}}/G{{Music|b}}
| C{{Music|#}}/D{{Music|b}}
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| G
| D
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| ○
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| ○
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| ●<ref group=n>Some recorders may need this hole closed (●), half closed (◐), or open (○) to play the note in tune.</ref>
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| D{{Music|#}}/E{{Music|b}}
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| E
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| F
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|●
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|●
|●
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| F{{Music|#}}/G{{Music|b}}
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| C
| G
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| C{{Music|#}}/D{{Music|b}}
| G{{Music|#}}/A{{Music|b}}
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| A
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● means to cover the hole. ○ means to uncover the hole. ◐ means half-cover.
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The range of a modern "baroque" model recorder is usually considered two [[octave]]s and a tone. See the table above for "English" fingerings for the standard range. The numbers at the top correspond to the fingers and the holes on the recorder. The vast majority of recorders manufactured today are designed to play using these fingerings, with slight variations. Nonetheless, recorder fingerings vary widely between models and are mutable even for a single recorder: recorder players may use three or more fingerings for the same note along with partial covering of the holes to achieve proper intonation, in coordination with the breath or in faster passages where some fingerings are unavailable. This chart is a general guide, but by no means a definitive or complete fingering chart for the recorder, an impossible task. Rather, it is the basis for a much more complex fingering system, which is still being added to today.

Some [[font]]s show miniature glyphs of complete recorder fingering charts in [[TrueType]] format.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fontspace.com/algomgom/recorder|title=Recorder font by algomgom|website=FontSpace|date=20 February 2012}}</ref> Because there are no [[Unicode]] values for complete recorder fingering charts, these fonts are custom encoded.