The Fingering Forum  
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Author: = )  
Date:   2004-10-08 01:03 
 I think the creators of this website should really add brass instrument fingering charts. I'm sure the brass players feel left out.  
  
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Author: ---  
Date:   2004-10-16 19:01 
 >>Eoin McAuley (Gnomon) wrote: 
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>>Fingering does not play a major part in playing brass >>instruments, the way it does in woodwinds. 
     I totally agree, Gnomon. The fact that many brass instruments share the same fingerings is probably the reason.
  
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Author: Me  
Date:   2004-12-01 17:14 
 I agree and disagree. Brass fingering are very forulaic, in the way that middle valve lowers a semitone, first lowers a whole tone, and that the harmonics get closer together as you go up the instrument. But alternative fingerings to flatten/sharpen notes do exist (like plaing a sharp top G 1+2 instead of 0). One could argue that they are easy to work out, but then again, so could many woodwind fingerings.
  
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