How to play A on the recorder

The fingering for A on a soprano (descant) recorder, with baroque fingering: Left thumb behind, and left pointer and middle fingers on holes 1 and 2.

Thumb hole covered, holes 1 2 covered

How to play it

From B, add your middle finger on hole 2: that's A.
Keep the pointer finger down as you add the middle one, so the two notes join smoothly.

If you hear B instead, hole 2 isn't fully covered.
Fingers lifting too high makes the next note slow: keep them close to the holes.

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