The Half Octave

The Half Octave

This “Half-Octave” group was e-mailed to me by Rick Miller, who uses it in testing the flutes and whistles that he makes. I have to admit, I didn’t hold out a lot of hope for it when I first saw the fingerings... but I gave it a try.

Not only did these fingerings work, they worked better than the more widely accepted “standard” fingerings.

Rick writes “I’m not certain, but [these fingerings] may only apply to straight-bore instruments.”

The test whistle used was a Generation D; I plan on testing them on several conical-bore whistles in the near future.

Update: 23 December 2006

There has been a little more field research with these fingerings. Daniel Fernandez writes:

Works on:

Copeland High D
Hudson Wind High D

Cheers,
--Daniel

And cheers to you, too, Daniel. Hudson Wind, huh? I've not heard of that whistle before. Must find out more...

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