Recorder fingering charts for people with visual impairments
Kunath Instrumentenbau offers recorder fingering charts for screenreader software.
This makes it easier for people with visual impairments to look up the fingering options on their instrument.
The fingering system was developed at the suggestion of and in cooperation with people with visual impairments.
The fingering chart system
The system is structured as follows:
- The finger holes are numbered from the top.
- The holes that are played are indicated.
- 0 stands for a completely closed thumb hole, 0 with a semicolon indicates a half-gripped thumb hole.
- The numbers 1 to 5 stand for the individual holes on the front.
- Half-open double holes (6 and 7) are labelled with a semicolon.
- Finger holes that can optionally be played are placed in brackets.
- UL denotes the lower sound hole at the foot end, or the hole end on the back of sigo recorders
Example
For a soprano: e in the second octave would be the notated fingering:
0; 1 2 3 4 5 6
Currently available fingering charts for screen readers
Fingering chart (for screen readers) for the sigo tenor recorder