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... the notes of one diatonic key built in. Take the key of C, it lacks all sharps & flats, therefore cannot be chromatic, by its very nature. The fact that someone may be able ...

... key. You can get more out of them--even I can, and I'm not very good. But insisting they are "really" ... is chromatic - therefore the fingering for sharps and flats is pretty much the same on all of them (not mentioning ...

... they can play every pitch, including all sharps and flats. Pianos, saxes, guitars, the silver, keyed Boehm flute--most ...

... Chromatic - solo tuned & have all te notes of a scale, including sharps & flats. Play any kind of music. Tremolo - these have a different sound to the other types, because ...

It's just because you get to keys with flats as the tonic earlier than you get to keys with sharps as the tonic, to simplify it. Been there, done that! ... out your Bb scale. Does that mean that from the standard starting point Bb is seven steps around the circle ...

... it, there's more than happenstance involved, and maybe a bit of magic. Each time you add a sharp ... here) and a desire to use all variants of 1..3 sharps and flats, the end point can only be Bb. Must find that circle ...

It's just because you get to keys with flats as the tonic earlier than you get to keys with sharps as the tonic, to simplify it.

Moving sharpwise five keys from C: G D A E B

Moving flatwise five keys from C: F Bb Eb Ab Db

... common whistle keys are those with none, one, two or three of either sharps or flats. Nothing more. It just so happens that the key of Bb major has the root note (?) of all ...

... me try again, Phill... The major key with no sharps or flats is C. G has one sharp and F has one flat. D has two sharps and Bb has two flats. A has ...

... So you've already got a key called something-flat (Bb major) with two flats, whereas it takes six sharps to get one called something-sharp (F# major). The common range of whistles cited by ...

Their bell notes (and hence nominal keys) also cover the major key signatures from three sharps to three flats:
A ###
D ##
G #
C
F b
Bb bb
Eb bbb

But it's just coincidence that flat (major) keys get flat names quicker than sharp (major) keys get sharp ones, hence spelling out your Bb scale.

... gigs with the traditional hymns in their standard keys, or what have you. I've mentioned that ... Church gigs where I'll need to cover from four sharps to four flats, and studio gigs where they music might be in any ...

... option for playing melodies, it has all the notes & incidentals, (sharps & flats). (Uses a slide to give the higher note option on each blow or draw note). You can try ...

... single key flute' you mean the baroque flute and by keyless flute you mean the modern keyless ... minors), there is music written for 3 or 4 sharps and and 3 or 4 flats. One of J S Bach's flute sonatas is in E major.

I have those keys. And I've had to use them! In normal music no key is ... friend has got quite good at playing in several flats and several sharps on her Boehm flute due to her regularly playing with ...