descant recorder that plays top E without covering borehole

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This is a very very niche question I realise.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a descant preferably plastic that you can get a top E out of without using the knee-on-borehole technique? I can get a reasonable E from my bog standard aulos with the borehole covered but despite practice and a short left thumbhole I can't make a reliable clear sound (at the right pitch) using the pinched thumb and second finger on left hand. Is there another fingering I should try? Or will we have better luck with a different instrument?

I have tried my lovely dolmetch pearwood descant which tbh is dodgy at D sharp and a very good plastic yamaha which was okay up to D sharp and a couple of random cheapo yamahas which tend to get screechy around B.

The reason I want to avoid using the borehole is I'd like to stand when playing and don't want to knock my teeth out with my knee :)

Should be short left thumbnail.

And by top E I mean top top E (3 ledger lines) two octaves above the bottom E.

I know all DD's produce the note (in tune too!) - plastic Yamaha, the brown one with wood grain effect can't remember what model that is - good Moeck pearwood - cheaper Moeck pearwood - Mollenhauer, not sure what model but again not an expensive one. I'm sure she has one she prefers to use and finds more reliable if there are a lot of high notes and she probably uses various fingerings, she is away til Saturday but will ask when she gets back.

I would ask John at Saunders Recorders, by email. He is very helpful and isn't biased re plastic vs wood.

Just remembered my favourite fingering charts:

www.flute-a-bec.com/tablaturgb.html

Ive a feeling this is going to be a thing that will be absolutely unique to each instrument- even the very minor variations in plastic recorders will notice here.

I also im sure if you're up in the stratosphere you will know this, but fingering charts are only a starter have a play with different combos and breath pressures. You might find something really interesting that only ?orks for you.

Ooh lavendersun the chart had a fingering I hadn't tried which worked on the yamaha (half thunb and first finger, full second finger). It's a little sharp but I think I can improve it witha bit of work. I have bookmarked those charts and when I have a quiet day and the neighbours are on holiday I may try some of the higher notes :)

That is lovely - it is always where I go to if I need something a bit different.

DH bought me a new recorder last year for a special anniversary, a rottenburgh in tulip wood - it does everything on its own so I haven't looked at them for a while.

That is the fingering I was thinking of but didn't like to write it in case it came across the wrong way, not as in it read correctly, but as in teaching someone something they already knew, hence my link .