NAF Fingerings

The diagrams show the chromatic scale, including all cross fingerings (aka "split fingerings" or "forked fingerings"). The notes in the standard pentatonic scale (i.e. "straight fingerings") are noted in each page as the "Root", "Minor Third", "Fourth", "Fifth", "Seventh", and "Octave".

Even if a particular maker is not explicitly listed, it is likely that one of these finger diagrams will work on your flute.

Please note that the names I have chosen are completely arbitrary!

Five-Hole Flutes

• High Spirits Five-hole Odell Borg
• Lakota Five-hole many makers, including Chris 't Coom (Larry Spieler), White Raven (Kai Mayberger)
• Moonlight Creek Five-hole Michael Gulino

Six-Hole Flutes

• Amon Olorin Six-hole Ken Light, Brent Haines.
• Butch Hall Standard Six-hole Butch Hall Dm, Em, F#m, Gm drone, and Am
• Butch Hall Alternate Six-hole Butch Hall Fm and Gm
• Butch Hall Kit Six-hole Butch Hall F#m Kit
• Diatonic Six-hole many makers, including Dr. Richard Payne, Barry Higgins, and Zacciah Blackburn
• Forest Flute Six-hole Alf Jetzer
• Foxhead Six-hole Malcolm Shute
• Heartsong Six-hole J. P. Gomez
• Moonlight Creek Six-hole Michael Gulino
• Pat Haran Six-hole Pat Haran
• Spirit of the Woods Six-hole Spirit of the Woods Flutes (Ed Hrebec)
• Stellar Six-hole Stellar Flutes (the Stewart family)
• Tony Sawyer Six-hole FluteCrafters by Tony Sawyer
• White Crow Six-hole Barry Higgins
• Wind Song Six-hole Scott Loomis

For other woodwind instruments, some excellent resources on fingerings are:

• The Woodwind Fingering Guide.
• Fingering-Charts.Com.

If you know of other fingerings, or other flutes that use the fingerings show on the pages above, please email me and I will add to this information.

Web site by Clint Goss - Last updated June 28, 2008.