Tenor Saxophone
High F on the Tenor Saxophone
Written F6 — sounds concert E♭5. Tap the diagram to hear it.
F6
Concert E♭5
All three palm keys, the side E key and the octave key: the top of the standard range on a tenor without a high F♯ key. The front-F alternate is the doorway into the altissimo register.
About this note
All three palm keys, the side E key and the octave key: the top of the standard range on a tenor without a high F♯ key. The front-F alternate is the doorway into the altissimo register.
- Primary fingering: Octave key + Palm D key + Palm E♭ key + Palm F key + Side E key
- Written pitch: F6 · Concert pitch: E♭5
- Sounding frequency: 622.25 Hz
Alternate fingerings for High F
- Front (fork) F: Octave key + Front F key + Left middle key. In F arpeggios, when coming from C6, and as the standard launch fingering for altissimo. Slightly less stable in tone than the palm-key F.
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.