Tootler, if music for F recorder was transposed to make it read with C fingerings, what problem would that create with deciding which range of recorder was best for the music?

None of the music on the French site has the music transposed in the way you want. Are you supposed to copy all of it out and transpose with a computer in order to tell which pieces you can play and which you can't? (It would take much longer than the practice time required to get fluent in reading F recorder music at pitch).

If you want to make your own choices about what to play rather than wait for somebody to feed it to you, you need to learn to read at pitch.


"transposing instrument" is the musical classification assigned to those instruments for which music must be transposed for it to be heard at concert pitch.

There are no such instruments. I read music for B flat clarinet at concert pitch. So will anybody who wants a repertoire that wasn't specially composed for it.