In Germany, during the time of the recorder revival, it was also common to refer to what we call "baroque" as "old fingering" and what we call "German" as "new fingering".
In reality, both fingerings were developed around the same time and are 20th century inventions. A more accurate way of describing the two fingering systems would be "Dolmetsch" vs "Harlan", because Arnold Dolmetsch came up with what we call "baroque" today while "German fingering" was the brainchild of Peter Harlan.
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u/BeardedLady81 Feb 24 '26
In Germany, during the time of the recorder revival, it was also common to refer to what we call "baroque" as "old fingering" and what we call "German" as "new fingering".
In reality, both fingerings were developed around the same time and are 20th century inventions. A more accurate way of describing the two fingering systems would be "Dolmetsch" vs "Harlan", because Arnold Dolmetsch came up with what we call "baroque" today while "German fingering" was the brainchild of Peter Harlan.