12/18/10

Fingering Diagram Builder

Bret Pimentel has designed a very cool web application that allows you to create fingering diagrams for woodwind instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and recorder). This app could be quite useful for teachers or even for someone just trying to keep track of different unusual fingerings (for example: multi-phonics, alternate fingerings, altissimo, quarter tone, or alternate fingerings). There are also customizable setting that allow you to control which keys show up on your fingering chart.

Nice job Bret!
                     



                               Here's a freaked out fingering I created with Bret's application: 





3 comments:

ericdano said...

I think it would be really cool if we came up with like a community database of alternate/multiphonic/altissimo fingerings.

Yeah?

David Carlos Valdez said...

That's a great idea Eric. A huge project, but a great idea.

The great multi-phonic, altissimo, alternate, quarter-tone fingering database!

That could actually could be a huge traffic draw and a great resource for players of all levels. Like a Wiki-fingering database. Nothing like it out there. It could explode in a short time.

Bret Pimentel said...

Hey David, thanks for the mention.

The Woodwind Fingering Guide used to be something like what you guys are describing. Not community-editable like a wiki, but actively accepting and posting new submissions. It seems to have fizzled out, though.