Individual note guide

High C recorder fingering

See exactly which holes to cover on a soprano recorder. This fingering is written as C5 and sounds as C6.

Baroque and German

High C fingering

Thumb + hole 2

  1. Cover the back thumb hole.
  2. Cover left-hand hole 2.
  3. Keep the remaining finger holes open.

Fingering patterns are checked against established resources from the American Recorder Society and Yamaha.