Narzog wrote:
How come this guy (and I've seen it before, this is jsut an example), covers the last hole when he has open ones before it.
I see, you mean how he's keeping his lower-hand ring finger down on Hole 6 when playing upper-hand notes?
I do that, many whistle players do that. It's called an "anchor finger".
With the mouthpiece to the left and the open bottom of the metal tube to the right, here's an example of fingering up the scale using the lower-hand ring finger as the anchor finger:
xxx xxx D
xxx xxo E
xxx xoo F#
xxx oox G
xxo oox A
xoo oox B
oxx oox c
ooo oox c#
oxx xxx d
It's not a fixed thing, but a general habit I and many whistle players do. It depends on what notes precede and follow, so often I'll be playing G fully open, it just depends on the surrounding notes.
Many other players never use that lower ring finger anchor, instead they use the lower-hand little finger as their anchor. That has the advantage of not being on a hole.
There are players who keep that little finger down for every note, fulltime. A fingering chart for that would be
xxx xxx|x D
xxx xxo|x E
xxx xoo|x F#
xxx ooo|x G
xxo ooo|x A
xoo ooo|x B
oxx ooo|x c
ooo ooo|x c#
oxx xxx|x d
I do use that lower-hand little finger anchor quite a bit on Low Whistles, though I leave it off for the lowest few notes, like this:
xxx xxx|o D
xxx xxo|o E
xxx xoo|o F#
xxx ooo|x G
xxo ooo|x A
xoo ooo|x B
oxx ooo|x c
ooo ooo|x c#
oxx xxx|o d
though it's not a rigid system but rather tendencies based on the situation.