Printable Piccolo Fingering Chart
A printable fingering chart made for the piccolo — with one honest panel at the top that most piccolo charts skip: the piccolo uses exactly the same fingerings as the flute. There is no separate piccolo fingering system to learn.
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What changes is the sound: everything you play comes out one octave higher than written. This printable presents the shared flute fingering set in the piccolo's written range, with the sounds-an-octave-higher rule stated where a student can see it.
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
All 37 written notes from C4 to C7 are charted with the flute fingerings, grouped by octave, with the thumb levers, trill keys and foot keys drawn as on the flute chart. The "sounds as" line on the chart page runs a written C4 to its sounding C5; on paper, the panel at the top of the PDF states the rule once, clearly, rather than pretending each row is a different fingering. The blank worksheet prints the same diagrams empty — piccolo players doubling from flute use it to test the range, not new fingerings.
The full chart, online
Prefer to check a note on screen, hear it, or look up one fingering at a time? The piccolo 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.
| Note | Fingering |
|---|---|
| C4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky low C key. |
| C♯4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky low C♯ key. |
| D4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3. |
| E♭4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| E4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| F4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| F♯4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 3 · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedThumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 2 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| G4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| G♯4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · left pinky G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key. |
| A4 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2 · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedThumb key · left hand 1-2 · right hand 1-3 · left pinky G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key. |
| B♭4 | Thumb key · left hand 1 · right hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedThumb B♭ lever · left hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| B4 | Thumb on the B lever · left hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| C5 | Left hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| C♯5 | Right pinky E♭ key. |
| D5 | Thumb key · left hand 2-3 · right hand 1-2-3. |
| E♭5 | Thumb key · left hand 2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| E5 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| F5 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| F♯5 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 3 · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedThumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 2 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| G5 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| G♯5 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · left pinky G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key. |
| A5 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2 · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedThumb key · left hand 1-2 · right hand 1-3 · left pinky G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key. |
| B♭5 | Thumb key · left hand 1 · right hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedThumb B♭ lever · left hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| B5 | Thumb on the B lever · left hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| C6 | Left hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| C♯6 | Right pinky E♭ key. |
| D6 | Thumb key · left hand 2-3 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| E♭6 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1-2-3 · left pinky G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key. |
| E6 | Thumb key · left hand 1-2 · right hand 1-2 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| F6 | Thumb key · left hand 1-3 · right hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| F♯6 | Thumb on the B lever · left hand 1-3 · right hand 3 · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedThumb on the B lever · left hand 1-3 · right hand 3 · gizmo key. |
| G6 | Left hand 1-2-3 · right pinky E♭ key. |
| G♯6 | Left hand 2-3 · left pinky G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedLeft hand 2-3 · right hand 2-3 · left pinky G♯ key · right pinky E♭ key. |
| A6 | Thumb key · left hand 2 · right hand 1 · right pinky E♭ key. Also usedThumb key · left hand 2 · right hand 1 · gizmo key. |
| B♭6 | Thumb key · right hand 1 · D trill key. |
| B6 | Thumb on the B lever · left hand 1-3 · D# trill key. |
| C7 | Left hand 1-2-3 · right hand 1 · left pinky G♯ key. |
Printing tips
Give this to the flutist who has just been handed the piccolo part: one laminated copy in the piccolo case ends the "are piccolo fingerings different?" question for the whole section. Teachers doubling students between flute and piccolo can set the blank worksheet as a range check — the fingerings should already be known; the work is hearing the octave. Prints cleanly in black and white, like every chart here.
Try a note in the Fingering Finder
Pick an instrument and a note and the diagram updates instantly — filled keys are the ones you press. The same finder sits on every note page, pre-set to that note.
Notes students check most
See also the piccolo fingering chart and the printable fingering charts index for the other instruments.
Are piccolo fingerings different from flute fingerings?
No — and this printable says so on its face. The piccolo uses the flute's fingerings note for note; it simply sounds one octave higher than written. Any chart that sells you a separate piccolo fingering system is selling you the flute chart twice.
Is the printable piccolo fingering chart free?
Yes — the filled chart and the blank worksheet are free PDFs for classroom and personal use.
Does the PDF match the online piccolo chart?
Yes. It is generated from the same flute data file as both online charts, checked against the Yamaha flute guide and the Woodwind Fingering Guide.