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Printable Oboe Fingering Chart

The complete oboe fingering chart as a free printable PDF: all 32 notes from B♭3 to F6, with the half-hole states, both octave keys and the fork fingerings drawn as they are played.

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The oboe's fingering system has more exceptions per octave than any other woodwind here — the rolled half-hole, the forked F, the left-E♭ — and a wall chart is where students finally see how the exceptions cluster instead of meeting them one surprise at a time.

Download the filled chart (PDF)Download the blank worksheet (PDF)

Both PDFs are free for classroom and personal use. Print them, copy them for your class, pin them on the wall — please just do not resell them or post them as your own product.

What is in the chart

The filled chart marks the eight published alternates, including the left-E♭ and the forked-F options, and shows the half-hole first finger honestly as a half-filled hole on the C♯5–E♭5 group. A source note runs with the chart, the same one the chart page carries: these fingerings rest on the Woodwind Fingering Guide and the NoteAtlas oboe chart, cross-checked against further published charts — Yamaha's oboe fingerings are printed inside its owner's manuals and could not be parsed note-by-note, so Yamaha is not claimed as a source for the oboe. The blank worksheet prints the same diagrams empty.

The full chart, online

Prefer to check a note on screen, hear it, or look up one fingering at a time? The oboe fingering chart has all of it — and every note below links to its own page with the diagram, the sound and the fingering in words.

NoteFingering
B♭3Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · left pinky B♭ key · right pinky C key.
B3Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · left pinky B key · right pinky C key.
C4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky C key.
C♯4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky C♯ key.
D4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3.
E♭4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky E♭ key.
Also usedHalf-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯CLeft hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · left pinky E♭ key.
E4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2.
F4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2 · right-hand F key.
Also usedHalf-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯CLeft hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-3 · right pinky E♭ key.
F♯4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1.
G4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3.
G♯4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2-3 · left pinky G♯ key.
A4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2.
B♭4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1-2 · right hand 1.
B4Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1.
C5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1 · right hand 1.
C♯5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1 (half-hole)-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky C♯ key.
D5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1 (half-hole)-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3.
E♭5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1 (half-hole)-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky E♭ key.
Also usedHalf-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯CLeft hand 1 (half-hole)-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · left pinky E♭ key.
E5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
First octave key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2.
F5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
First octave key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2 · right-hand F key.
Also usedHalf-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯CFirst octave key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-3 · right pinky E♭ key.
F♯5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
First octave key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1.
G5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
First octave key · left hand 1-2-3.
G♯5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
First octave key · left hand 1-2-3 · left pinky G♯ key.
A5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Second octave key · left hand 1-2.
B♭5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Second octave key · left hand 1-2 · right hand 1.
B5Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Second octave key · left hand 1.
C6Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Second octave key · left hand 1 · right hand 1.
C♯6Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 2-3 · right hand 1 · right pinky C key.
D6Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1 (half-hole)-2-3 · right hand 2 · right pinky C key.
Also usedHalf-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯CLeft hand 1 (half-hole)-2-3 · right pinky C key.
E♭6Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
Left hand 1 (half-hole)-2-3 · right hand 2-3 · B trill key.
Also usedHalf-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯CLeft hand 1 (half-hole)-2-3 · right hand 2-3 · right pinky E♭ key.
E6Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
First octave key · left hand 2-3 · right hand 2-3 · left pinky G♯ key + E♭ key.
Also usedHalf-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯CFirst octave key · left hand 2-3 · right hand 2-3 · side G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key.
F6Half-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯C
First octave key · left hand 2 · right hand 2-3 · left pinky G♯ key + E♭ key.
Also usedHalf-filled hole = half-holeOct 1Oct 2B trillFSide G♯G♯E♭FBB♭Left pinkyRight pinkyE♭C♯CFirst octave key · left hand 2 · right hand 2-3 · side G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key.

Printing tips

Print the filled chart for the oboe stand — the third-octave rows repay wall space, because that is where the octave-key choices change. The blank worksheet suits the half-hole group best as a written test: those five notes are the ones students think they know. Black-and-white printing keeps the half-filled holes readable, since the half state is drawn as a shape, not a shade.

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See also the oboe fingering chart and the printable fingering charts index for the other instruments.

Is the printable oboe fingering chart really free?

Yes — the filled chart and the blank worksheet are free PDFs for classroom and personal use, with no sign-up.

Does the PDF match the online oboe chart?

Exactly — generated from the same data file. The oboe fingerings were checked against the Woodwind Fingering Guide and the NoteAtlas oboe chart, with further published charts as cross-checks; where those two disagreed, the chart page records how the note was settled.

Why is the first finger half-filled on some notes?

That is the half-hole: C♯5 to E♭5 are played with the left index finger rolled to open a sliver of its hole. It is drawn as a half-filled circle on the printable, exactly as on the online chart.