From a posting by afmmjr on the MMM forum (this one):
It is really easy to play quartertones on a recorder. Honestly. One uses the right alternate fingerings. There is one pitch that requires one to lift a leg so as to point the tube towards full closure (lowering the instrument a quartertone, to F 1/4 flat).
Jon Lyle Smith posted fingerings for some just intervals in the following posting on MMM (assumed 1/1 = F):
o= open, x= closed, /=half.
7/6: x - x - x - x - x - o - o
x (thumb) x - x
11/9: x - x - x - x - x - o - x
x o - x
9/7: x - x - x - x - / - x - o
x x - o
11/8: x - x - x - x - o - o - o
x o - o
13/9: x - x - x - o - x - o - o
x o - o
14/9: x - x - o - x - x - x - o
x x - o
18/11: x - o - x - x - x - x - o
x x - o
21/16: x - o - x - x - x - o - o
x x - o
12/7: x - o - x - x - x - o - o
x o - o
7/4: x - o - x - o - x - x - x
x x - x
16/9: x - o - x - x - o - x - x
x x - x
9/5: x - o - x - x - o - o - o
x o - o
11/6: x - o - o - x - x - x - o
x x - o
27/14: o - x - o - x - x - o - o
x x - o
Playing microtonal music on recorders
From a posting by afmmjr on the MMM forum (this one):
It is really easy to play quartertones on a recorder. Honestly. One uses the right alternate fingerings. There is one pitch that requires one to lift a leg so as to point the tube towards full closure (lowering the instrument a quartertone, to F 1/4 flat).
Quartertone fingering chart for alto recorder by Tui St. George Tucker: http://tuistgeorgetucker.com/scores/alto%20recorder.pdf
A video by Robin Andrews showing the use of recorder to play an arabic maqam scale (Sikah): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghttCq9Uuls
Jon Lyle Smith posted fingerings for some just intervals in the following posting on MMM (assumed 1/1 = F):