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Introduction


Welcome to Recorder Digits, a program that displays recorder fingerings for alto, soprano/tenor, and bass recorders. By default, the program displays all standard and alternate fingerings. It can also display trills, turned trills, and two different varieties of advice for beginners. It can produce text and word-processor-format (RTF) reports showing the fingerings (with recorder pictures on the RTF report).

The program has a powerful recorder-description language which can be used to change the program's  display. This is done via external files which are then loaded into the program (see External Files - General Description). There is extensive documentation for this language in the included Help files.

Below is a snapshot of the program's screen. To view a particular note's fingering, follow these 3 steps:

1. Click the Recorder Type button
2. Click one of the Octave Buttons
3. Click one of the Note Buttons or a note in the scale display above the buttons.



The standard and alternate fingerings (if any) for that note will be displayed.

If a fingering has additional information associated with it, an "Info" button will appear beside it (see Info Buttons).

If an alternate fingering is normally used for trilling, the fingering will contain red holes (the trill fingers), plus a trill "position" indicator. Both are described in the Fingerings section. You can turn these red trill fingers off, thereby getting pure alternate fingerings, by using the Display Trill Fingers Checkbox.

You can get "context-sensitive" help by hitting the F1 key. This means that it will bring up help on the last button you pushed. For example, if the last button you pushed was an Octave button, if you hit F1, the help screen about the Octave buttons will be displayed.