BASIC TUNING METHOD
Once you have your holes marked, just drill (or burn) them small (1/8"),
and, one by one, starting from the bottom one, check them on the tuner,
and enlarge them until you reach the right note (look at the tables below).
- The bigger the hole, the higher the note -
If you end with too big holes, it's because the whole holes group is too low on the bore,
or the bore wall is too thick.
- The higher the holes on the bore, the smaller the holes -
- The thinner the bore, the smaller the holes -
TUNING CHARTS
Here is some various tuning charts to help you to tune your instrument.
Basically, a minor pentatonic flute can play almost all the notes, using cross fingering, and half holing.
In
spite of that, if you want to tune your flute another way,
we've added some more tuning charts to explore.
On the tables below, for each key (right column),
you'll find the notes you have to obtain by placing your fingers following the finger chart on the top...
Click on each table to get a bigger printable version.
To make things easier, all the half tones are written with a "#"...
If you are familiar to read some of these half tones with the flat extension (b),
here is a little table with equivalences:
A#=Bb
G#=Ab
F#=Gb
D#=Eb
C#=Db
5 holes - pentatonic mode 1 tuning chart
The most simple tuning to achieve
6 holes - pentatonic mode 1&4 tuning chart
The most widely used actually
6 holes - pentatonic mode 2&5 tuning chart
An interesting alternate fingering
6 holes - diatonic tuning chart
Fairly used too, to suit players accustomed with diatonic instruments
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