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
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.