<BTW, it's confusing to say that recorder players "have to learn different fingerings for different [instruments]."
This confusion has been mentioned before. It is true that the recorder is not a transposing instrument (if we disregard octave transpositions) so the same fingerings give different notes. All fingers down on, for example, the descant (soprano) or tenor gives the note "C". The same fingering on the treble (alto) gives "F" (and this is written as "F"; it doesn't just sound "F" as it would if it was a transposing instrument). The all-finger note on most of the common sizes is either C or F, but others exist, such as alto in G (= all-finger note is written and sounds "g" and "voice flute" or "tenor in D" (idem, mutatis mutandis). See, for example, http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/recorder/rec_bas_1.html Or http://www.recorder-fingerings.com/ Whether your A is 440, 415, 392 etc. is, of course, a totally different question. An nsp F chanter could be described as a G chanter tuned to A = 392 (which, historically, is what it is. Why else would the music be written in G?) Bit off topic, I suppose. chirs To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
