How do you play d7 on recorder?

Answer 1

Assuming you mean the soprano recorder, D7 has two meanings; the sounding pitch D7 and the written pitch D7. As the soprano recorder is a transposing instrument, transposing a full octave up, written pitch D7 is actually sounding D8.

Both notes are possible, although sounding D8 is much harder to produce well on the recorder.

For sounding D7, the fingering is

t 1-3|4-67

Or, half cover the thumb-hole, and fully cover the first, third, fourth and sixth finger-holes. To make the note more in tune but a little bit less playable, you can cover half of the 7th hole.

For sounding D8, the fingering is

t 1-3|-5--

Or, half cover the thumb-hole, and fully cover the first, third, and fifth finger-holes.

This note requires a great deal of air support in order to sound properly and is hardly practical on the soprano recorder.