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[stefpat]

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Do you know this note? It's G#
It's not easy to play it...with my Dixon low D?? Song are very strange...and you??

[Martin Milner]

I tend to half hole G#s when needed - XXV OOO.

[stefpat]

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Same note G# , but not easy for me!!
Thanks

[peeplj]

On some whistles this (G# = x x o | x x o ) is a pretty good note, fairly easy to hit--Oak, Acorn, Clare, Generation, and Waltons except Mello-D are all pretty easy to hit.

On other whistles with wider bores (Susato, Syn, Mello-D) you can cross-finger it this way ( x x o | x o x ) and on these whistles you can get a decent first-octave G# with ( x x o | x x x ). These are the same fingerings used on the Baroque flute.

Half-holing almost always works but can be a real challenge to do at speed.

--James

[lixnaw]

i just stay away from cross-fingering altogether. i play in D all the time, sometimes in G. i just put the tune in D on the computer.