THE SOPRANO RECORDER

all 27 notes from C5 to D7 in the Baroque and German systems — and how to tell which one you hold

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: music · school · reference · classroom

Left hand on top: thumb 0 covers the hole on the back, fingers 1–3 take the upper holes, the right hand takes 4–7. Fingerings follow the charts Yamaha publishes for soprano recorders; the soprano sounds an octave higher than written, which is why a small 8 sits above its treble clef.

TWO SYSTEMS, ONE GLANCE AT THE HOLES

In the 1920s German makers reworked the Baroque recorder to make F easier for beginners — and the easy fingering was paid for with the tuning of other chromatic notes. The school instrument has been split into two systems ever since.

You can tell them apart by eye: look at holes 4 and 5. On a Baroque recorder the fourth hole is smaller than the fifth; on a German one the order is switched. Yamaha also spells the system in the model name: YRS-24B is Baroque, YRS-23 is German.

On the sheet

Left hand on top: thumb 0 covers the hole on the back, fingers 1–3 take the upper holes, the right hand takes 4–7. Fingerings follow the charts Yamaha publishes for soprano recorders; the soprano sounds an octave higher than written, which is why a small 8 sits above its treble clef.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 9 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

THE SOPRANO RECORDER

TWO SYSTEMS, ONE GLANCE AT THE HOLES

On the sheet

Printing

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