Cross-fingerings: list your favorites!

What are your favorite cross-fingerings for accidentals?

Hope my medical insurance premiums are paid up. :smiley:

djm

Doc,

the only problem with cross-fingerings is that they are relative to the hole size on a flute. My baroque flute cross-fingers all accidental except for the keyed D#, but my Seery only has a few I use:

C= OXO OOO or OXX OOO or OXO XXX
G#= XXO XXX OR XXO XXO

With the Seery hole size, half holing Fnat and Bb are very easy, and I usually half hole the G#, too. Heck, I’m starting to get a decent D# in the lower and middle octaves, too.

The aulos boroque also uses these which might work on a smaller hole flute:

Bb= XOX OOO or XOX XOO
Fnat= XXX XOX

I think that’s all I use.

Eric

:laughing:

Incidentally, the crossest finger is the one finger.

:laughing: Only accidentally. :smiley:

djm

:thumbsup:

I like the kind of cross fingering that can be used to avert vampires.

That von’t help you, gentile!