 The Fingering Forum
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Author: Lisa
Date: 1999-08-25 19:17
I am having a disagreement with a coworker. Can anyone help me? Is the fingering for the flute and the oboe the same? Also is the fingering for the saxophone and the clarinet the same?
Thanks,
Lisa
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Author: Eoin
Date: 1999-08-27 22:07
The fingerings on the flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone
and recorder are all different. This is why there are separate charts on this WFG site for each of them.
They all work on the same general principle: blow in one
end, left hand is closest to mouth, fingers cover holes.
You start uncovering holes from the far end, opening
more and more holes to make a scale.
This is a totally different principle to "brass" instruments
such as the horn, trumpet, tuba etc.
People who play both Sax and Clarinet say that if you know one, you can pick up the other fairly easily. I don't know whether the same applies
to other combinations.
I personally find it hard to remember recorder fingering
and clarinet fingering at the same time. If I practise one,
my abilities on the other suffer.
Eoin
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Author: Mykel
Date: 1999-09-06 02:25
No the fingering for the flute and oboe are not the same. Because I play both of them. My sister plays the clarinet and my friend in my band at school plays the sax. And they play together sometimes and they are not the same.
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Author: Ken
Date: 1999-10-05 01:40
I think that most woodwind fingerings in general are the same. For instance on the saxophone "d" is fingered like
123 123. Oboe- 123 123 Clarinet- T 123 123 Flute- T 123 123
Basically, regarding minor differences in the use of the thumb key for clarinet and flute, the fingering for the note "d" is the same. Not all the fingerings for the instruments are the same because like Eoin said, "That's why they have more than one chart, but many of them in essence are the same. When i switched from oboe to alto saxophone to be in the marching band, I was surprised at the fingerings. Because they were so close to the oboe, I didn't have to learn as much.
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Author: Ken
Date: 1999-10-05 01:45
Also many oboe players (except for me) may start out on flute because they are close to the same fingerings. Saxophone and clarinet fingerings are similar but the clarinet has more notes therefore has more fingerings.
My main point is that woodwind fingerings may not be exactly the same but are very close.
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Author: Marcee
Date: 1999-10-22 02:00
Oboe and flute are similar, but Oboe and Alto Sax are more similar, and clairnet fingerings are WAYYYYY diffrent!
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Author: Jennifer
Date: 1999-11-23 14:56
I play the flute, the oboe and the saxophone. These two instruments fingerings (flute and sax) are almost exactly the same. On the other hand an oboe has some of the same fingerings as the flute but mostly the fingerings are entirely different.
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Author: Chelsea
Date: 2000-01-03 14:20
I play all the instruments you asked about and believeme, they are differnent!! When I first started oboe I had been told it was the same as the flute. It was horrible!!
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Author: Jonathan
Date: 2004-04-12 03:51
i dont know about flute/oboe, but i do know that Bb saxes (soprano, tenor, bass) are generally the same in both registers as the clarinet's upper register and the same goes for the Eb saxes (alto, bari) and the clarinet's lower register.
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