The Kingma System Bass Flute:

A Practical Guide for Composers and Performers

(2013 version)

Carla Rees

Royal College Of Music, London

Pitch

• Range
• Microtones
• Explanation of fingering charts
• Quartertone fingering chart
• Trills & tremolos
• Trill fingering chart: low register
• Trill fingering chart: middle register
• Trill fingering chart: high register
• Pitch bends & glissandi

Explanation of fingering charts

Throughout this resource, fingerings refer to written pitch.

The main keys are shown graphically, using the following symbols:

Additional keys are shown through letters:

Footjoint keys:

D^ (D up) D#, C, C# and B

RH keys:

F#^ (F sharp up)

LH keys:

C^ (C up), C#^ (C sharp up)

Thumb keys:

Bb, Bb^ (B flat up), B and B^ (B up)

These additional keys are only shown if the keys are closed, and are shaded grey if trilled.

Where no consistently reliable fingering has been found for a particular pitch, this is shown on the chart with an x.

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