Flute
Low B♭ on the Flute
Written B♭4. Tap the diagram to hear it.
The method-book B-flat is "one and one": left first finger plus right first finger, thumb still on the B key. Learn this one first — it lets you move freely between B-flat and B natural, and keeping a right-hand finger down balances the flute better than the thumb lever does.
About this note
The method-book B-flat is "one and one": left first finger plus right first finger, thumb still on the B key. Learn this one first — it lets you move freely between B-flat and B natural, and keeping a right-hand finger down balances the flute better than the thumb lever does.
- Primary fingering: Thumb B key + Left index (key 1) + Right index (key 4) + E♭ key (right little finger)
- Written pitch: B♭4
- Sounding frequency: 466.16 Hz
Alternate fingerings for Low B♭
- Thumb B-flat (Briccialdi lever): Thumb B♭ lever (Briccialdi) + Left index (key 1) + E♭ key (right little finger). Use in flat keys and any passage with no B natural in it — the thumb simply lives on the B-flat lever throughout.
Flute fingering data last updated . Every diagram here, in the printable PDF and in the chart image comes from one dataset, so the paper and the screen cannot disagree.