cross-fingering

music
Also known as: fork-fingering

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pitch-changing devices

  • shakuhachi (end-blown flute)
    In wind instrument: Flutes and reeds

    …one, a technique known as cross-fingering. For example, to produce f rather than f♯, the player uncovered the fifth hole with the second finger of his right hand while keeping the sixth hole (and the first through fourth holes) covered. (Because this arrangement of the fingers looked vaguely like the…

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