Premiere - Concert Quality Native American Style F# Flute
Our Premiere Native American style F sharp flutes are professional quality, handmade artisan flutes. Each flute is meticulously crafted with pride and care. The voice of our F# flutes is full and smooth. This lower key is sought after by novice flute players and professional musicians alike. Our selection of F# flutes is always changing as we source new and distinctive woods from the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Take a look at our current inventory and experience these flutes for yourself with photos and videos of each one. Below, find more information about this wonderful key, watch the overview video to hear one, and read the specs to compare measurements and find the right size flute for you.
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Key of F# Flute Overview
Want to learn more about our Native American style Premiere F# Flutes? In this video, I give a sound demo and discuss this key.
Advance Your Flute Playing With This Versatile Key
Listen To The Deep Tones Of Our Premiere F# Flute
Our Premiere Native American style F sharp flute is sought after for its low and soothing voice. It is the natural progression from the key of G flute, or a wonderful first flute for a player with larger hands. Professional musicians and novice flute plyers both agree that this flutes lower voice is just what the song called for. Lower in pitch than both the A and the G flutes, it is often desired for having a deeper voice which many people are drawn to.
Tuning and Size
The Specs : Tuning and Measurements
Our flutes are tuned to the universal standard 440hz which means that they are compatible with most other concert tuned instruments. They feature a pentatonic minor scale buy play the major scale and many other scales as well! Don’t know what that means? Don’t worry, they come with instructions that include pictures so you don’t need to read music to play these flutes.
Our Premiere Native American F# (the # symbol represents a Sharp sign in musical notation) flute is tuned to the pentatonic minor scale in the key of F# which means the highest and lowest notes on this flute will play the key of F# (not including overblow notes). These are medium sized flutes measuring 24 inches long with a 7/8 inch bore. The fingering holes are (from center to center) approximately 1 1/8 inch apart. The distance from the mouth end of the flute to the first finger hole is approximately 10 ¾ inches. This is the lowest key I recommend for beginner flute players. It has a larger finger stretch, especially on the bottom three holes, than our G and A flutes. This key of flute is suitable for most adults with large or flexible hands. Adults who have played other instruments are usually successful playing flutes in this key because of their improved dexterity.
Stellar Fingering Chart for Native American Style F# Flutes
In the chart below you will see three scales that you can play on a six hole Native American style key of F# flute.
If you play every note pictured, you will be playing one octave and three notes of the “chromatic scale”. This scale takes a lot pf practice and we usually recommend you learn other scales first. This is all the notes your flute will play. The top three notes are achieved by blowing much harder and some flutes will not play the highest note pictured. The notes of the chromatic scale in the key of F# are: F#,G, G#, A, A#, B C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#
The shaded columns represent one octave of the “pentatonic minor scale”, this is the most common scale you hear people use for the Native flute. It is the easiest scale to play and the one we suggest you start with. These notes sound good in any order. The notes of the pentatonic minor scale in the key of F# are: F#,A,B,C#,E,F#
The columns with a * above them represent one octave of the “diatonic major scale”. This scale takes a little more work to memorize, but it is very useful for playing popular music. The notes of the diatonic major scale in the key of F# are: F#,G#,A#,B,D#,F,F#
