The Larsen Preferred has smaller holes, so is it much harder to do half-holing? I emailed Terry McGee about this. He replied that he did not have one of these flutes on hand at the moment and could not give a definitive answer. He thought that half-holing would work best on the larger holes of this flute.
I have one of these flutes and yes, some of the half holeing is a bit tricky. The Cnat seems just fine, however. This flute also has some crossfingered notes that seem to work well, like the second octave G#.
Headwizer - try some of the crossfingerings here:
http://www.baroqueflute.com/models/Grenser.pdf
It’s PDF - hope you have that. I’d bet on a small hole flute many of these cross fingerings will work, but you have to blow softer to get some of them.
Eric
I don’t know how much I’d trust a fingering chart like the one above that has separate fingerings for G#/Ab, etc. As far as I know those are both the same note.
What I do for half-holing notes on small-holed flutes is to just sort of stick the tip of my fingernail in the hole. Sounds weird but works fairly well.
xenophonica - back in the day that chart was originally made, sharps and flats were discrete notes, and they do sound slightly different if you’re playing the notes on a baroque flute…Many of those cross fingerings work well on small holed flutes, a few even work on large holed flutes.
Eric
oops. good to know. sorry 'bout that.