Open G# Fingerings
I will post more and more useful materials under this topic. First thing first. I received an inquiry on a 3rd register trill fingering. It dawned on me that I don’t have a fingering chart for the flutes with open G-sharp mechanism. Since I had been music-school trained with a closed G-sharp, I’ve only been trying to adapt the fingerings and trill fingers the best I could – trusting my ears to tell me what sounds right and wrong. Some fingerings, I just couldn’t figure out, but I just let it go since I have not been performing in front of an audience in a long while (Corona Virus-led hiatus also a factor). So, I’m ashamed to say that whatever I’m doing, I’ve been doing probably incorrectly, and I didn’t want to provide incorrect fingerings to anyone publicly. So, I looked around everywhere on the Net, but I could not find any for this special mechanism.
I decided to reach out to Ludwig Böhm, a descendant of Theobald who has been quite an advocate for performers on Open G# Flute. He kindly shared the chart with me. He has also kindly given me the permission to make it available through this website.
He told me “You find the regular fingerings and fingerings for trills on two pages in the appendix of Theobald Böhm’s book “Die Flöte und das Flötenspiel …” (see attachments) and on six pages in Dayton C. Miller’s translation “The Flute and Flute Playing …” of 1922 (Dover Publications 1964)”
I believe I have the book, but because I’m in the middle of relocation, it’s in one of the boxes that I still need to open… Renovation is not yet done…
What a kind man. He also sent me the following link where an even better PDF could be found.
Open G-Sharp Flute Advocacy 