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Flute - Turkish Ney

The document provides estimated fingerings and corresponding frequencies for notes on the ney flute based on deduced information. It assumes the first note is C at 261.6 Hz and deduces the frequencies for the next six notes. Tables are given showing the deduced fingerings and frequencies for one, two, and three waves in the tube. The author notes the frequencies are estimates and may not match actual notes due to limitations in the analysis.

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Flute - Turkish Ney

The document provides estimated fingerings and corresponding frequencies for notes on the ney flute based on deduced information. It assumes the first note is C at 261.6 Hz and deduces the frequencies for the next six notes. Tables are given showing the deduced fingerings and frequencies for one, two, and three waves in the tube. The author notes the frequencies are estimates and may not match actual notes due to limitations in the analysis.

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Ney fingering

Sed ([email protected])

2004-02-06

The information here may be false. I just deduced things.


First, I will explain how I did this.
We will suppose that for a given fingering, the obtained tone is a harmonic of the basic sound for this
fingering. (This more or less matches what happens with the ney, for what I can tell. I am not a specialist
of this.)
In this document, we will describe only seven fingerings, so we need the frequency of the basic sound for
each of these seven fingerings.
I obtained this information from various web resources.
I will suppose that the first note of a ney is a C at 261.6 Hz. This is probably wrong, but it helps to
deduce the rest.
If the first note is a C, we have that the next note is a D. Then, we have a D#, then an E semi-bemol,
a F, a F# and a G, which gives us our seven fingerings. The corresponding frequencies will be 293.7 Hz,
311.1 Hz, 320.0 Hz, 349.2 Hz, 370.0 Hz, and 392.0 Hz.
When air vibrates in a tube, it will create one, or two, or three, or ..., waves, depending on the pressure
of the air flow (or some other parameters, I am not a specialist of this). When there is only one wave, its
length is the length of the tube. When there are two waves, each one is half the tube, For three waves, they
will be 1/3 of the tube, etc.
If we suppose that we have one wave for the C at 261.6 Hz, we can deduce that the frequency that will
come out with the same fingering if we produce two waves will be the double. For three waves, it will be the
triple, etc. These are the frequencies shown below the notes in the figures.
I suppose that E semi-bemol is at 320.0 Hz, it may not be correct, but I think it’s not that bad.
Frequencies of obtained tones won’t exactly match the frequency of an existing note, especially for the
highest tones, we may have 20 Hz and even 40 Hz of difference with an existing note, so some deduced notes
may be wrong. I may have tagged this fingering as a C where it really is a C semi-flat, for instance. But
since the obtained frequency does not exactly match the one of a note, it’s hard to tell what is this note we
ear. As I said, take this information as is.
Here is a table of notes with their frequencies (in Hz). This are the real values for the notes. I used this
table to choose in the figures what was the closest note for one fingering.

A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#
220.0 233.1 246.9 261.6 277.2 293.7 311.1 329.6 349.2 370.0 392.0 415.3
A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#
440.0 466.2 493.9 523.3 554.4 587.3 622.3 659.3 698.5 740.0 784.0 830.6
A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#
880.0 932.3 987.8 1046.5 1108.7 1174.7 1244.5 1318.5 1396.9 1480.0 1568.0 1661.2
A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#
1760.0 1864.7 1975.5 2093.0 2217.5 2349.3 2489.0 2637.0 2793.8 2960.0 3136.0 3322.4
Take the information as is. If you know the fingering is not correct, contact me ([email protected]), so that I
can change things.

1
b b

C D D#/Eb Eb F F#/Gb G
261.6 Hz 293.7 Hz 311.1 Hz 320.0 Hz 349.2 Hz 370.0 Hz 392.0 Hz

b b

C D D#/Eb Eb F F#/Gb G
523.2 Hz 587.4 Hz 622.2 Hz 640.0 Hz 698.4 Hz 740.0 Hz 784.0 Hz

b b

G A A#/Bb Bb C C#/Db D
784.8 Hz 881.1 Hz 933.3 Hz 960.0 Hz 1047.6 Hz 1110.0 Hz 1176.0 Hz

2
b b

C D D#/Eb Eb F F#/Gb G
1046.4 Hz 1174.8 Hz 1244.4 Hz 1280.0 Hz 1396.8 Hz 1480.0 Hz 1568.0 Hz

E F#/Gb G G A A#/Bb B
1308.0 Hz 1468.5 Hz 1555.5 Hz 1600.0 Hz 1746.0 Hz 1850.0 Hz 1960.0 Hz

G A A# Bb C C#/Db D
1569.6 Hz 1762.2 Hz 1866.6 Hz 1920.0 Hz 2095.2 Hz 2220.0 Hz 2352.0 Hz

3
A# C C C#/Db D#/Eb E F
1831.2 Hz 2055.9 Hz 2177.7 Hz 2240.0 Hz 2444.4 Hz 2590.0 Hz 2744.0 Hz

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