Of course you know the “fork E and fork F”. So, for the “palm key high F#” you would press the D, Eb, and F palm keys with the left hand, the high E key with the knuckle of the right hand, and with the middle finger of the right hand, the high F# key. The first and most obvious use of the high F# key is to extend the range of the regular palm key fingerings. But let me first mention this… to use the various fingerings I will show you, you must get in the habit of using the right hand middle finger to press the high F# key. I really should get hold of a modern fingering chart for these things.ĭave, there are so many good uses for the high F# key, besides the obvious one. I am still getting used to the feel of this horn and I never had a high F# key to use before. I now find this key to be a very useful, welcome addition to the Saxophone. Well, I was wrong, they were wrong, and the music store owners who talked me out of ordering the high F# option were wrong. I thought it entirely useless… after all, like everyone said, they don’t write higher than the high F for the Saxophone, anyway. For me, the high F”# key was a rarity, a mythical creature that I did not see until my college years.
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