Tenor Saxophone

C♯5 on the Tenor Saxophone

Written C♯5 — sounds concert B3. Tap the diagram to hear it.

C♯5
Concert B3Beginner note
Written C♯5 on the treble staff

Everything up: no fingers, no octave key. With the whole tube open this is the thinnest note on the horn, and on tenor it also tends flat — support it with air, not a tighter embouchure, and expect it to settle only when the air is truly steady.

About this note

Everything up: no fingers, no octave key. With the whole tube open this is the thinnest note on the horn, and on tenor it also tends flat — support it with air, not a tighter embouchure, and expect it to settle only when the air is truly steady.

  • Primary fingering:
  • Written pitch: C♯5 · Concert pitch: B3
  • Sounding frequency: 246.94 Hz

Tenor Saxophone 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.