Flute C#, Grade 2 piece Options

[bourdon16]

Sorry to barge in, it will become clear I am not a woodwind player; perhaps I should post this in Teachers.

What is the flute fingering for C# in the space an octave (+ a semitone) above middle C? I had a boy playing Schubert's Marche Militaire in preparation for a concert and I was playing the piano. C# was dreadfully out of tune, with no keys pressed. I rang my wife, who does play the flute, and she said to use the C# key with the little finger of the RH but another opinion I have had suggests this would be hard at Grade 2.

What do you all tell your pupils?

I was told "The cheaper the flute the more out of tune C# is".

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) If my woowind peri reads this it will cost me several bottles of wine and months of apologies; she is a super teacher and a great colleague but I think we need help with this one. (phew!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

[andante_in_c]

Just a note in addition: it's the age of the flute that is often the problem, not necessarily the cheapness. Older Yamahas and Buffets have a particularly sharp C#.

If the flute is set up correctly, with the headjoint draw set so that the overblown harmonic of low C# is as close as possible to the standard C# fingering (no fingers except RH pinkie), then the note will be better in tune.